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Quick Pak - What the Packaging Trade is Saying!: pricing news...LLDPE : Polyethylene For the third week in a row spot Polyethylene prices eased slightly. Film processors have backed away from buying, rep...

Polyethylene For the third week in a row spot Polyethylene prices eased slightly. Film processors have backed away from buying, reporting healthy inventory already on hand and citing only moderate demand for their finished goods. Although upstream resin inventories grew in September, they are still relatively light, but balanced off by unenthusiastic buying activity, both domestic and export. Resin producers have not overtly diminished their intent to increase October resin prices by 5c/lb watch this space...

Quick Pak - What the Packaging Trade is Saying!: polyethylene pricing news from quick pak inc : For the second week in a row Polyethylene prices held just about steady with some slight slippage seen in some grades. While the market ...

For the second week in a row Polyethylene prices held just about steady with some slight slippage seen in some grades. While the market is not awash in resin, good material availability was seen across all commodity resin groups. After several months of superb demand, buying slowed dramatically in September. Export sales also cooled . .

Quick Pak - What the Packaging Trade is Saying!: Stretch Film Pricing Oct 2012 : Market Update & Summary Oct 1th 2012: Spot resin markets were mostly steady to a half-cent higher in moderate trading. Railcar offe...

Market Update & Summary Oct 1th 2012: Spot resin markets were mostly steady to a half-cent higher in moderate trading. Railcar offerings continue to run at a below average pace and resellers’ inventories are also on the light-side, those processors in need of spot material are reluctantly bidding up the market to get material. September resin contracts are seeing very little movement. Polyethylene contracts are mostly steady, although those buyers that only went up $.03/lb in August are paying $.02/lb more this month; industry-wide contracts are now up $.05/lb for Aug/Sept. It looks like PP contracts are increasing just $.01/lb in Sept, on the low side of expectations; PGP was initially nominated to increase $.025-.04/lb. The US energy markets fell in volatile trading and November, quoted here, began rolling to the front month. Nov Crude Oil futures bounced off the week’s low of $91.55/bbl to settle at $92.89/bbl on Friday, a net loss of $6.44/bbl. Nov Natural Gas futu...