IHS chemical company newly published "global plastics and polymers report" said, this year the global polystyrene demand expectations are lower than last year, mainly due to the high price of raw materials, polystyrene prices drop. In this case, some users choose to expandable polystyrene (EPS), polypropylene, polystyrene resin to replace ABS.
Report is expected in 2013, Western European polystyrene demand will be reduced by about 5%, the Eastern European market will show a similar trend. Since last year, raw benzene due to high prices of styrene prices continue to rise, and then drive the polystyrene prices rose, while the other plastic resin because of lower cost of raw materials demand expanding. In May the European general purpose polystyrene price stability in the euro 1550 (ton price, similarly hereinafter; FD northwestern Europe), because the price is too high in many applications are expandable polystyrene (EPS) replaced by resin. As in the transparent packaging, polystyrene is replaced by EPS material.