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

Every resin negotiation starts the same way. A quote lands in your inbox. The number looks reasonabl...

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 ...

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

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

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

Your supplier just sent a price increase letter citing "market conditions." But the letter doesn’t m...

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