
Recycled Polyolefins (R-PE & R-PP)
Simplifying and putting into context the complex and evolving world of plastics recycling
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Price & market indicators
Shortages of material mean that grades suitable for packaging applications are regularly trading above virgin values. Upstream movements have largely decoupled from recycling values for these chains. At the same time, non-packaging applications are heavily purchased based on cost. Waste bale and recycled material quality varies, add underlying volatility.
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What our customers say
Ondaplast
“ICIS price forecasts have helped us allocate resources smartly and efficiently, to anticipate price changes, and to buy PP at favourable prices.
The reports have saved our internal team a lot of time and effort when analysing pricing trends.”
Stefan Schröter
Folienwerk Wolfen
“Subscribing to ICIS is invaluable to us – we haven’t found another source of such in-depth and useful data. We also attend regular webinars where ICIS experts keep us fully up to date on all things related to recycled polymers and sustainability. All this market insight really keeps us ahead of the game and enables us to make buying decisions with much greater confidence. As a result, we are saving between 0.5% and 5% annually on buying raw feedstock for PET and R-PET.”
Jose Davila
American Liquid Packaging Systems
“The data ICIS provides is critical to our decisions as it gives us a global vision of market supply & demand, financial trends and indicators, so we can prepare a strategy for selling HDPE and polypropylene (PP)
resins. As a partner constantly monitoring the market, their expertise enables us to strategize with our suppliers and customers to ameliorate supply disruptions and/or abrupt market changes.”
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