AKRON, OHIO (May 7, 2:05 p.m. ET) — A two-month increase in North American prices for PVC resin is featured in this week’s Material Insights video. Chevron Phillips’ selection of Old Ocean, Texas, as the site for two new... [Leer más]

AKRON, OHIO (May 3, 2:20 p.m. ET) -- The North American PVC market is off to a robust start in 2012, with strong demand and higher feedstock costs pushing resin prices up a total of 4 cents per pound since Feb. 1.

The regional market saw a 2-cent hike in February and another 2-cent hike in March, according to... [Leer más]

AKRON, OHIO (April 30, 1:35 p.m. ET) — Price changes for North American high-impact polystyrene and PET bottle resin are featured in this week’s Material Insights video. More nylon 12 resin alternatives also are included in this... [Leer más]

Plastic producers announced further price increases April, including an element for margin improvement on top of their higher cost base.

L/LDPE

L/LDPE producers called for price increases ranging between €70/tonne and a rather ambitious €150/tonne last month following a rise of €40/tonne in the April ethylene contract price. While sellers maintained that they were determined to improve their... [Leer más]

AKRON, OHIO (April 26, 2:10 p.m. ET) -- Diverging feedstock trends have sent North American prices for high-impact polystyrene resin up since March 1, while PET bottle resin prices have declined since that date.

Regional prices for HIPS rose an average of 2 cents per pound in March, mainly as a result of higher prices for butadiene feedstock, according to buyers contacted by Plastics News. Market prices for benzene feedstock... [Leer más]

The Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK) has highlighted price leaps of up to 30% in the cost of materials such as polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) since the start of the year.

It forecast that no end to the upward spiral was in sight, with further raw material price hike of around ?150 per tonne for materials such as PE already announced for April.

More than 80% of its 300 members taking part in a recent poll... [Leer más]

AKRON, OHIO (April 2, 9:40 a.m. ET)  — Rising prices for polyethylene and polypropylene in North America are featured in this week’s Material Insights video. A new pigment plant in Tianjin, China, also is spotlighted in... [Leer más]

AKRON, OHIO (March 29, 2 p.m. ET) -- North American prices for polyethylene and polypropylene resins increased for the second straight month in March, with feedstock issues and supplier discipline overriding slow demand growth for both materials.

Regional prices for all grades of high low and linear low density PE are up an average of 3 cents per pound since March 1, according to buyers contacted by Plastics News. PP prices... [Leer más]

Petrochemical feedstock contract prices have turned upward following a steady climb in crude oil and naphtha costs.

The ethylene contract price for January increased €40/tonne in response to rising naphtha costs and the weakness of the euro against the US dollar. PE producers responded by posting planned price increases in excess of the cost rise; ranging from... [Leer más]

Petrochemical feedstock contract prices have turned upward following a steady climb in crude oil and naphtha costs.

The ethylene contract price for January increased €40/tonne in response to rising naphtha costs and the weakness of the euro against the US dollar. PE producers responded by posting planned price increases in excess of the cost rise; ranging from... [Leer más]

Ashland Performance Materials, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., is increasing the prices of its Derakane epoxy vinyl ester resins, unsaturated polyester resins (UPRs) and gelcoats portfolio sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) by 100 euros per ton.

Materials manufacturer Styron Europe is calling for polystyrene monthly contract prices to be settled in the first week of every month to improve price management.

The current system – in which orders are typically dispatched and delivered before the contract price of polystyrene is settled – presents a number of inefficiencies ranging from incorrect pricing to time-consuming accounting adjustments, says the... [Leer más]

Celanese Corporation (NYSE: CE), a global technology and specialty materials company and a global leader in emulsion polymers, recently announced it will raise the price of all vinyl acetate based emulsions (vinyl acetate ethylene, vinyl acetate homopolymer and vinyl acetate copolymer emulsions) sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Price increases will range from € 60/MT to € 95/MT, effective April 1, 2012, or as... [Leer más]

European rigid plastic food packaging manufacturer, Paccor, says it is taking measures to tackle the challenge of sharply rising raw material costs – it is putting up the cost of its polystyrene vending and drinking cups.

“This is an extremely difficult and serious situation,” said Chris Hart, the managing director of Paccor’s European food service division. “The last thing we want to do is to pass on... [Leer más]