Asphalt Weekly Monitor
4 June 2021
- Paving activity resumed in the U.S. following the long Memorial Day holiday weekend.
- Retail asphalt pricing firms in many areas on the East Coast, with flux retail pricing flat.
- East Coast asphalt and roofing flux wholesale pricing unchanged to start June.
- Midwest wholesale asphalt prices were firm for June supply, with assessed ranges rising modestly this week. Flux prices were reported higher in most areas for June supply.
- Midwest rack selling prices were mostly flat, with few changes, as paving work restarted.
- Gulf Coast retail asphalt and flux price ranges remain unchanged this week.
- Asphalt and flux barge prices on the Gulf Coast are status quo.
- Rocky Mountain rack selling price assessments firmed in only a few locations.
- Rockies wholesale prices were reported at higher levels for June supply.
- Eastern Washington asphalt prices were up. Other West Coast locations were flat.
- In western Canada, retail asphalt prices were flat. Alberta wholesale prices went up.
- In Quebec, selling price assessments were lower price ranges. In Ontario, both posted prices and selling price assessments went up this week.
- Oil prices increased notably again this week for all benchmark grades.
