Plastics Market Update – August
In August, we continued to see price increases, supply restrictions and lead time extensions on resins and additives alike. Interestingly, the shortages in virgin material...
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August 11, 2021
July Plastics Market Update 2021
What We Saw in July... The entire plastics industry continues to experience record-setting supplier shortages and cost pressures, with the backlog of orders just shy of...
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June 30, 2021
Plastics Market Update: June
As summer chugs along, price increases, shortages, and logistics issues continue to trouble the plastics industry and related markets. With the late-summer preparations for...
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June 8, 2021
May Plastics Market Update 2021
In May, we saw more of the same. Demand was still incredibly strong, and price increases continued across nearly all resins. Production has not returned to normal levels and...
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May 3, 2021
April’s Plastics Market Update
The plastics industry remains in flux as both material production and logistics industry attempt to catch up to normal levels of availability and demand. Below are highlights...
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April 8, 2021
March Plastics Market Update
The story of plastics market shortages continue and even amplified in March, as the consequences of Storm Uri continued to significantly reduce US supply of resin. The storm...
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March 12, 2021
February 2021: Plastics Market Update
As we’ve said before, there are non-plastics related events that affect us all directly or indirectly, including now the weather, which has changed the supply of the...
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February 12, 2021
Plastics Market Update: January 2021
At Star, we feel compelled to continue updating you on the market conditions for ABS, PC and related products and services globally. There are non-plastics related...
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January 29, 2021
Plastics Market Recap from Star
A recap of December, and What We See Moving Forward At Star, it is our priority to produce materials to the quality level that you require and provide lot-to-lot...
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