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Showing 81 – 90 of 92 resultsPolyolefin prices rose a bit last month as suppliers implemented summer price increases to make up for higher energy and feedstock prices.
After a mid-summer respite from price increases in commodity resins—with some prices actually declining—processors face rising prices again heading into fall.
Midsummer brought a sudden pause in price escalation—at least for polyolefins—after a storm of increases announced in June.
Soft or flat prices in the first five months of the year ended with a thunderclap in June.
In the first four months of the year, commodity resin prices took a breather from their relentless uphill march.
Demand for most commodity resins was generally lackluster in the first quarter and the beginning of the second.
Prices of most commodity resins were flat or slipping downhill in February and March.
PE, PS, and PVC prices remained flat or softened further in February, aided by slack demand and lower feedstock costs.
Polyolefin prices sledded downhill in December, while PVC skated on flat resin tabs.
With demand for all commodity resins exceedingly weak, and feedstock prices fallen through the floor, there appears to be nothing to stop resin tabs from shrinking further in 2009.