The Weekly News Digest: September 30, 2024

Resin Price Report: Resin market abides as storm and port strikes loom

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: 9/20/2024

Avient announces plans to expand medical TPE production capacity in China

US and Asian PC prices stable despite oversupply

Global PET prices decline amid weak demand

HDPE market faces downward pressure amid bleak demand and regional disruptions

PP prices down in Europe

SABIC to showcase materials for train interior applications at InnoTrans 2024

Prices flat to down for all volume resins

Weekly News Digest: September 23, 2024

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: September 13, 2024

Uptick in US PP market amid stable inventories and reduced hurricane impact

Covestro to construct new TPU application development center in China

LLDPE prices lower in Europe

Chasing down marine plastic pollution with The Ocean Cleanup

This Week in History

September 29, 1910: Donald Fletcher Holmes was born. He co-patented the process to manufacture TPU while working at DuPont.

Weekly News Digest: September 16, 2024

Resin Price Report: Polypropylene prices ease as new month gets underway

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: September 6, 2024

Italian polymer additives supplier sets up shop in Florida

The Asian PVC market continues downward trend

Naphtha prices surge in US amid increasing crude oil prices

LLDPE prices plunge in Europe

Polyplastics launches LCP grade based on biomass derived materials

This Week in History

September 18, 1789: Johann Eduard Simon who accidentally discovered polystyrene was born.

Weekly News Digest: September 9, 2024

Resin Price Report: Whatever happened to the predicted record-breaking hurricane season?

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: August 30, 2024

Asian PC market enters September on a bearish note

LDPE prices slip in US and Asia

LDPE prices up in Europe

Lummus’ ethylene technology to be incorporated in Kazakhstan’s first PE plant

This Week in History

September 10, 1898: Waldo Lonsbury Semon was born. He did not invent PVC but is credited with turning PVC into a commercially viable product in 1926.

Weekly News Digest: September 2, 2024

Happy Labor Day

Resin Price Report: Spot resin trading bounces back as railroad strike is averted

The Plastics Exchange Market Update: 8/23/2024

Lego willing to pay up to 70% more for certified renewable resin

Huntsman launches new line of TPUs for footwear applications

ABS market faces weak demand and price stability challenges

US carbon black prices rise in August

LDPE prices climb in Europe

Dreyplas develops new “high-sliding” material to replace PTFE