Coming up Senior Reporter Frank Esposito expects some changes to resin prices in the coming weeks as companies recover from Hurricane Beryl, prepare for more potential resin production outages and consider the upcoming election. Tune in July 25 at 2 p.m. EST for Polymer Points Live.
New today Senior reporter Jim Johnson reports one of the victims killed during the assassination of President Donald Trump on July 14 was an engineer for JSP Corp., a range of expanded polymers serving the automotive, construction, civil engineering and packaging markets.
From the cover It's time for our midyear M&A Special report. High interest rates have played a major role in plastics deals so far this year. Watch for the stories throughout the week and bookmark our M&A tracker.
Also Gulf Coast resin plants have restarted in the aftermath of Hurricane Beryl. Frank Esposito also shares in this week's Material Insights that companies are considering stockpiling materials for the rest of the hurricane season.
And DuPont steps downstream into medical device manufacturing in a deal with Donatelle Plastics.
