Plastic Market Monthly Has A Unique Approach to Surveying the Plastics Market

Know where your company stands in relation to others in the plastics industry. The PMM Reports track over 60 specific grades of PE, PET, PP, PS & PVC resins. Townsend's unique approach collects actual data from resin buyers to provide you three key benchmarks: price, inventory levels & future demand. Market participants recognize the Plastic Market Monthly reports as the source presenting the most accurate data available anywhere, at any price.

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The Plastic Market Monthly (PMM) is the ONLY publication that offers you a source for key information, based on a monthly survey of converters throughout the US & Canada. 

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The PMM is an excellent gauge of:

• Resin demand via converters, days of supply, and delivery expectations
• Real price movement vs. private announcements
• Real transaction prices
• A view of the bottom and top of the market via our 10th and 90th percentiles
• Off-spec prices as leading indicators
• Price protection and indexing trends
• Feedstock & energy prices
• Summary of resin production & economic trends

While other information sources are dependent on editors' relationships with industry contacts, the PMM is not.  In 1987, we set up a benchmarking study to gather key information from subscribing converters so that we would have the most accurate information to analyze the market. Participants are provided with data forms at the end of each month to supply: deliveries, price, inventory levels, resin usage, finished-goods inventories and terms of purchase.

Data from hundreds of resin converter participants is not our only source of information. We also survey resin suppliers to collect their input on both the resin they sell and feedstock's they use. With a robust set of data from resin suppliers and converters, the PMM is able to verify all data that is included in its monthly study.

No one else in the industry has access to such specific information and gathers it in a systematic way each month. Participants have a vested interest in supplying accurate information because they pay for the PMM report. They want to know where they stand in relation to the market, so they may maintain their position or negotiate further. Resin suppliers subscribe to the PMM because they know the information reflects actual market activity and is quite different from other publications that follow supplier price announcements and survey very few resin purchasers.

With the PMM, you can be assured that you will receive accurate information, provided through a proven and consistent methodology, from a reliable plastics industry information provider.