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Prices rise for polyethylene, PET

Plastics News

Regional PET bottle resin prices also were up 2 cents for the month, according to market sources contacted by Plastics News. Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic, sources said. Mexico was the largest source of U.S. billion pounds in 2022.

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Commodity prices rise; engineering resins drop

Plastics News

Regional PE demand also had been down because processors had built larger-than-normal inventories after the COVID-19 pandemic began, sources said. By comparison, the export market share of North American PE sales averaged only 24 percent from 2015-18. Prices for all grades of PE were down a net of 2 cents for full-year 2022.

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Foot on the gas: How biomethane is helping hauliers decarbonise

SMMT

Increasingly, operators of all sizes are turning to the fuel, from some of the country’s largest logistics operators, to family-owned hauliers, as they look to find alternatives to petrol and diesel HGVs. Arla Foods is now turning cow manure from its farms, and food which would otherwise go to waste, into a source of renewable fuel.