Welcome to our Resin Pricing page. No single line item on a processor's ledger is larger than plastics purchasing. We developed this page to keep you informed on current resin prices and on the news that can move those prices, in the hopes you can use this information to keep your resin spend as low as possible.

Each workday we will update the spot and contract pricing charts below with the help of our friends at The Plastics Exchange. We are working with the London Metal Exchange to offer daily updates on its plastics future contracts. Here the editors of Injection Molding Magazine and Modern Plastics Worldwide will post articles and commentary on supply/demand issues and other pricing topics. More developments are in the pipeline so check back daily.

Source: The Plastics Exchange

Pricing & Production News

TPE North American resin pricing, March 1-5: PE and PP both climb; PE up $0.05 after ethylene rose $0.10
TPE North American resin pricing, Feb. 22-26: PE and PP up, increases proposed for March and April contracts
TPE North American resin pricing, Feb. 15-19: PE, PP climb
TPE North American resin pricing, Feb. 8-12: PE steady, PP stabilizes
TPE North American resin pricing, Feb. 1-5: PE up $0.04, PP up $0.02/lb
TPE North American resin pricing, Jan. 18-22: PE steady/lower, PP up
TPE North American resin pricing, Jan. 11-15: PE, PP rise; PP already up $0.08/lb in ‘10
TPE North American Resin pricing, Jan. 4-8: PE and PP start the new year up $0.04/lb

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More Headlines

Dow Europe GmbH announces price increase for PS, ABS, SAN and EPS grades

New year, higher prices

Victrex adds distributor in India, targets compression molding

Plantic to add production in the U.S.

Purac boosts lactic acid production in Thailand for PLA usage

Overcapacity likely to remain status quo for PE, PP

Novomer launches $800,000 project to commercialize new biopolymers

PolyMirae plant starts Metocene PP production in Korea

Equate polyethylene expansion complete

BASF shutters EPS plant in Spain

Automotive plastics slams on the brakes in 2009

Bayer, ExxonMobil augment Chinese research presence

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