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Most plastics procurement teams subscribe to at least one resin pricing service. Many subscribe to t...

You can buy millions of pounds of resin a year and still struggle to answer a very basic question: a...

Most resin procurement teams run on spreadsheets. Price tracking, supplier comparisons, contract his...

Try pitching a survey-based pricing index to an oil trader. Or a metals buyer. Or anyone purchasing ...

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

Operating rates are one of the most-watched numbers in resin markets. They show up in industry repor...

Your company probably has a resin forecast somewhere. Maybe it's a quarterly outlook deck from a con...

You read the indexes. You follow industry news. You talk to your suppliers regularly. And you're sti...

Most resin buyers believe they're paying "market price." Their contracts reference an index. The for...

In resin procurement, the playing field isn't level. If you're not moving railcars, you already know...