Standard Recyclate September 2013: Latest round of price hikes on the primary market has little effect / Price gap to virgin material widens / Demand fuelled by lively construction pick up and end of summer holidays / Primary prices about to fall?

Ashland, Interplastic and AOC announce Q4 price hikes

China Standard Thermoplastics August/September 2013: Mixed pricing for feedstock imports / Standard thermoplastic imports see firm to modest price increases / Domestic manufacturers raise prices

Price increase for methyl methacrylate monomer

Third price hike for VAM in three months

Another price hike for EVA copolymers in place

Price increase for unsaturated polyester/vinyl ester resin products

Price to go up for NPG

Standard Thermoplastics Trend September 2013: Polyolefin rise held to cost increase / PVC and styrenics with slightly more momentum / No across-the-board easing / Only PE tending weaker

Russia August 2013: Prices continue to rise / Speed of decline in the value of the ruble slows briefly / Strong demand for PP pipe grade and PET

Price hikes for composite products in Europe

North America July/August 2013: PE and PVC in deep summer lull / PP shifts sideways after rally / PS dips in July / Well-supplied market pressures engineering grades

Higher prices for ABS and other styrene copolymers

Price hike in October for manufactured composites

Composites/GRP August 2013: Ortho resins downslide bottoms out / First hike announcements expected in September / Demand recovering / Glass fibre products unchanged