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If you buy plastic resin for a living, this podcast is your edge. Hosted by the experts behind ResinSmart, The Plastic Resin Buyer Brief gives you fast, focused updates on the market forces moving resin prices—and the strategies that smart buyers are using to save money, reduce risk, and make better decisions.No fluff. No filler. Just the information you actually need—delivered by sourcing pros who’ve managed billions in resin spend.Subscribe now to stay ahead of the curve in polyethylene, polypropylene, and beyond.Learn more: www.resinsmart.aiFollow us on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/resin-technology-incWatch episodes on YouTube: www.youtube.com/@RTiGetResinSmart
ResinSmart hosts The Plastic Resin Buyer Brief, a business show with 54 episodes published.
Resin buyers are entering the second half of July with two very different market conditions. Polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC and PET continue to favor buyers. Inventory remains elevated, no meaningful July price increas
PE settled down 15 cents for June. PP settled down 8.5 cents. No proposed price increases in either market for July. Resin buyers are holding the leverage across most major commodity materials. But a mid-week geopolitica
H1 2026 was one of the most active nomination environments in recent memory — north of 90 proposed increases across commodity and engineering resins in a single quarter. The justification was consistent: feedstock costs,
PE inventories are at 46 days of supply. PP exports collapsed 17.6% in May. INEOS is permanently closing 400,000 metric tons per year of PS capacity in Illinois. Caprolactam dropped over $136/mt in a week. Crude oil fell
Three signals converged in the resin market this week — and they all point in the same direction for buyers. WTI crude dropped 9%+ on the U.S.-Iran peace agreement. Polyethylene posted its biggest inventory build in 11 y
The ACC's preliminary May data hit this week and it's decisively buyer-friendly — but only if you're paying attention. In this episode of Resin Market Moves, Michael Workman walks through the week's key market developmen
It was dance recital week in the Workman household — and the chaos behind the scenes at the studio is a perfect metaphor for where the resin market sits right now. May settled cleanly on the surface. But TotalEnergies is
May settlement week just drew the clearest line in months between markets where cost drives pricing and markets where producers are simply testing what buyers will accept. PP's PGP contract settled down 7 cents per pound
A supplier price increase letter hits your inbox. The clock starts immediately. Most buyers have two weeks to respond. Their suppliers are already working with current market intelligence, while many procurement teams ar
My son graduated from 5th grade yesterday. Watching him walk through that arch of balloons, one thought kept in my head, that what got him here isn't going to be enough for what's next. The same is true for resin buyers
The resin market divided itself in May — and the right move in one half is the wrong move in the other. In this week's episode, Michael Workman breaks down what's actually happening across all nine major resin markets an
This week delivered five market-moving events in seven days: crude oil swung 12% in 48 hours, TotalEnergies declared Force Majeure at LaPorte, Braskem challenged Brazilian antidumping duties on US PE, Celanese announced
Four consecutive months of PP contracts finishing higher. Benzene up 62 cents in a month. PVC at 16 days of supply. It feels like you're killing a penalty that never ends. But disciplined buyers don't drop the stick. Thi
This week’s Resin Market Moves focuses on a dynamic that doesn’t show up in market reports, but is actively shaping outcomes in April: increase fatigue. With polyethylene, polypropylene, ABS, PVC, nylons, and PET all mov
There’s a lot of noise in the resin market right now. Headlines, supplier messaging, market updates—it’s constant. And when things get volatile, it’s easy to feel like you need to react to all of it. In this session, we
There's a story Michael Workman lived through that's especially relevant now. It goes back to his time in sales at PolyOne, when a rigorous deal autopsy process surfaced an uncomfortable truth: the number one business re
This week's Resin Market Moves covers the defining market dynamic of April 2026: every major resin category is moving higher at the same time, all driven by the same upstream cost stack. PE, PP, ABS, PS, PC, PVC, PET, PA
Host: Michael Workman, Commercial Director, ResinSmart Runtime: 4:14 Episode Summary The April feedstock contracts settled sharply higher across the board — and producers across every major resin category are pushing pri
This week on Resin Market Moves, Michael Workman covers the full Q2 resin market picture from the prior week. The headline: producers are moving beyond cost recovery and into margin expansion — layering increases across
This week on Resin Market Moves, Michael Workman covers the most consequential week in resin pricing in recent memory — and breaks down exactly what buyers should do about it. The conflict in the Middle East has effectiv
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