Plastics & Polymers

IHS Chemical provides regional and global market advisory services that deliver a comprehensive view of world markets for plastics and polymers. Depending on the service, clients receive a balance of weekly and/or monthly reports containing near-term market pricing and other critical data to help navigate these dynamic markets.

In recent years, the global plastics and polymer industries, like many of their chemical industry counterparts, have begun to witness resurgent demand growth following the global economic downturn in 2008. The discovery of shale gas—a low-cost feedstock—has revitalized both light olefins and polyolefins production.
The interplay of varying levels of regional demand growth, capacity changes and an evolving landscape of production costs lead to complex market dynamics.

Combining ever-changing market dynamics with fluctuating rates of global economic recovery, stakeholders in the plastics and polymers business need access to timely, forward-looking data and analysis. IHS Chemical devotes a team of highly experienced industry specialists around the globe to following the world’s major markets for plastics and polymers. Through continual, personal contacts with key industry sources, our experts gather and analyze the salient data, which they then translate into valuable insights and forecasting advice. Our clients save time and resources to devote to making critical business decisions.

The Plastics and Polymers services include:
- Asia/Middle East/India Plastics & Polymers
  Weekly and monthly reports delivering critical market insight and price forecasts for global polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, polystyrene, EPS and PVC markets
- Europe Plastics & Polymers
  Monthly reports delivering critical market insight and price forecasts for European polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, polystyrene, EPS and PVC markets
- China Polyolefins
  Weekly and monthly reports delivering critical market insight and price forecasts for China’s polyethylene (HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE) and polypropylene markets
- Global Plastics & Polymers
  Monthly reports delivering critical market insight and price forecasts for global polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, polystyrene, EPS and PVC markets
- Global PET
  Weekly price updates and in-depth monthly market analysis for the entire PET Bottle Resin chain in Asia, Western Europe and the United States
- Global Engineering Resins
  Monthly reports delivering a comprehensive view of world markets for seven major engineering resins