Lilli Sherman

2 weeks ago | ptonline.com | Lilli Sherman

Slowed domestic and export demand, lower feedstock costs, continuing uncertainty of tariffs and their impact on supply-demand fundamentals, and concerns about the overall economy’s direction are among the contributing factors for the flat-to-down trajectory of prices for polyethylene (PE) polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyethylene terephthalate (PET).

1 month ago | ptonline.com | Lilli Sherman

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2 months ago | ptonline.com | Lilli Sherman

Prices of volume resins going toward the second quarter were indeed a mixed bag — higher for polyolefins, a bit higher for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and flat for all other resins. Projections for at least the early second quarter, which typically exhibits an uptick in demand, were also mixed.

Feb 25, 2025 | ptonline.com | Lilli Sherman

Prices of the five commodity resins were on the rise within the first part of first quarter due to contributing factors like freezing weather production disruptions, rising feedstock costs and a higher-than-typical number of scheduled turnarounds for key feedstocks. This, along with the impact of the returning Trump administration’s enaction of tariffs. (As of Feb.

Jan 21, 2025 | ptonline.com | Lilli Sherman

Barring weather-related or other unscheduled production interruptions — including the potential of a strike by the International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) against the nation’s East and Gulf Coast ports before the end of January — prices of the five major commodity resins were still projected to be on an upward trajectory at press time. This is the case despite slowed domestic demand and the overall buyers’ market experienced during 2025 contract negotiations at the end of 2024.