White line: PS remains out in the cold

Durable goods form among the first victims of consumption under recession. Sales of cars are the immediate reference, but the appliances also pass a cut. Scan taken from the oven by the Electros notes that 2016 was the fourth year in a row of red in the recipe of the appliances. White Bay, the entity has collated on the marketing period of 12,900,000 units of refrigerators, washing machines and cookers, well away from the 18 million delivered in 2013 and 18,900,000 in 2012, the year when the industry enjoyed with exclusive tax breaks removed in the following financial year. The deficit of-10.5% compared to the revenue in 2015, makes the white line a dish indigestible for the two dominant commodity resins in injection of components for the white line. In the sphere of polypropylene (PP), the thud is solid, but mitigated by the variety of thermoplastic, consumer markets stroked in strongholds such as raffia, in tow of the robustness of agribusiness. But there is no diversity vent for polystyrene (PS), resin that prevails inside of refrigerators, thread that says, roughly, for about 50% of your internal market, supplemented by packaging and disposable. This retraction for four years in a row helps to justify the increase of exports of PS in 2016.