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The price increase letter hits your inbox. The number is bigger than expected. And immediately, a fa...

Ask a resin buyer if they’re paying a fair price, and you’ll probably get a confident nod. But push ...

You would never let treasury ignore a 20% swing in your largest expense category. You hedge currency...

Your portfolio company’s resin costs are almost certainly 5–15% higher than they need to be. The big...

You’ve optimized headcount across the portfolio company. You’ve renegotiated the leases. You’ve sque...

A 3¢/lb resin price increase sounds like a rounding error. On 10 million pounds of annual volume, it...

“We are writing to inform you that effective [date], pricing for [grades] will increase by [X]¢/lb.”...

“The market is tight.” Every resin buyer has heard it. It’s the single most common justification sup...

Mid-month resin price increases don’t happen by accident. Suppliers time them deliberately, landing ...

Resin buyers have a pricing problem that doesn’t show up on any invoice. It’s called index lag, and ...