Weekly field-reported polymer resin price index

Name: Weekly field-reported polymer resin price index: commodity, high-temperature, engineering, recycled and thermoset resins (virgin and recycled grades) across North America and Europe, plus ~25 years of historical price series and a resin-equipment / converter rankings database.
Creator: Plasticsnews

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Weekly field-reported polymer resin price index: commodity, high-temperature, engineering, recycled and thermoset resins (virgin and recycled grades) across North America and Europe, plus ~25 years of historical price series and a resin-equipment / converter rankings database.

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Industry: Commodity ChemicalsPaper & Plastic Packaging Materials & Containers
Instruments: equities
Categories: PriceCommoditiesSupply ChainAlternative
Regions: US
Sample tickers: LYBDOWCEWLKBERYSONPH

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Type: not stated
Format: Tabular (subscriber-downloadable spreadsheets by resin grade, plus weekly published tables)
Volume: ~1,300 price observations per year across ~60-120 resin grades x 2 regions = roughly 60-150K datapoints over the 25-year archive; plus annual converter/supplier rankings and daily news corpus.
Users: ~2-6K paying All-Access subscribers (inferred from ~200 staff at a $7M-revenue Crain trade title with subscription-gated pricing; trade-weekly paid bases typically run low thousands)
History: 25 years
Update frequency: not stated
Growth: Active / Mature — weekly pricing updates continue and 2026 events and newsletter products are being sold, but the print-era subscriber model is stable rather than growing.
Launched: ~1986 (Plastics News founded by Crain Communications in Detroit; the 25-year-plus pricing archive implies the index predates 2001)
Delivery: not stated
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