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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 ...

As we close out the first month of 2026, the macro backdrop in the U.S. is still best described as m...

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