At each event the Exchange will deliver a session outlining details of the new regional contracts and the additional prompt dates, both being introduced on 25 June 2007. In addition, each event will feature an LME pricing review and analysis presentation, plus a half-day hedging workshop on plastics futures trading, both delivered by an LME member firm.

The half-day workshops will help the plastics industry to understand how hedging can help organisations to better manage their polymer price risk, and therefore better predict costs, and profits.

For more information about each of these conferences and to book please click on the following links:

25th Annual Petrochemicals Conference – Houston – 17-18 October 2007
• Presentation on LME plastics from Robert Sheldon, Plastics Development Manager, London Metal Exchange Ltd
• LME Pricing Analysis and Forecast – David Paul, Barclays Capital
• LME Plastics Hedging Workshop – Dr Mo Ahmadzadeh, President, and Abe Ulusal, Plastic Futures Broker, Mitsui Bussan Commodities

LME Plastics Workshops

The half-day workshops offered as part of the ICIS events will offer attendees an opportunity to learn more about how hedging with plastics futures contracts can help organisations to better manage price risk using practical workshop examples.

Key reasons to attend:

• Learn about the advantages of pricing your physical transactions basis the LME price
• Understand the workings of the LME and how its services can add value to your commercial transactions
• Understand the purpose of the delivery mechanism on the LME and its relationship with your supply chain

Who should attend?

The half-day workshops are designed to assist all those involved in pricing physical transactions in the plastics industry and in assessing risk management tools. Among those who would benefit from attending are individuals working within the following business areas:

• Procurement
• Finance
• Risk management
• Treasury
• Sales and commercial