今明两年全球PE市场仍将保持供应紧张

中国石化新闻网讯 据安迅思新闻纽约8月3日消息，利安德巴赛尔公司首席执行长Bob Patel周五表示，今明两年全球聚乙烯（PE）市场预计仍将保持紧张。

Patel在公司二季度业绩电话会议上表示：“去年我们在全球范围内的乙烯和聚乙烯产能利用率接近于满负荷。如果你关注2017年至2018年的供应和需求变化，你会发现供应增长超过需求增长的比例还不到1%。”

此外，他指出，对于高密度聚乙烯（HDPE）来说，2018年需求增速将超供应增速约1.5%。HDPE在利安德巴赛尔公司的PE产量中占了大约70%。

Patel表示，预计2019年全球PE的总体供应和需求增长将接近平衡，而HDPE的需求增长将再次超过供应增长。

他补充称：“如果到今年年底，产能利用率下降了1%，在我看来，我们仍然处于一个非常紧张的市场，在未来几年内不会有太多的产能投产。”

张春晓 摘译自 安迅思新闻

原文如下：

Global PE markets expected to remain tight through 2019 – LyondellBasell CEO

Global polyethylene (PE) markets are expected to remain tight through 2018 and into 2019, the CEO of producer LyondellBasell said on Friday.

“Last year globally we had very high operating rates – really near full capacity in ethylene and polyethylene. If you look at change in supply and change in demand from 2017 to 2018, supply growth is exceeding demand growth… by less than 1%,” said LyondellBasell CEO Bob Patel, on the company’s Q2 earnings conference call.

In addition, for HDPE, which accounts for around 70% of LyondellBasell’s PE output, demand growth is expected to exceed supply growth by almost 1.5% in 2018, he noted.

In 2019, overall PE supply and demand growth are expected to nearly match, while HDPE demand growth would exceed supply growth again, the CEO said.

“If by the end of the year operating rates have dropped 1%, in my view, we still have a very tight market with not much capacity coming in the next couple of years,” he added.