Lilli Manolis Sherman Contributing Editor

Lilli Sherman is a contributing editor for Plastics Technology Magazine. Lilli started with PT in 1987, and has reported on ever-evolving materials and additive technologies.  She also is responsible for PT’s resin pricing column.

Other interesting topics she regularly covers include advances in biopolymers, thermoplastic composites as well as testing & measurement, decorating & printing, and welding technologies. She also enjoys being a regular blogger on interesting technologies and studies that emerge in the news beats she covers.

For the last five years, Lilli has been invited to serve as a participating judge in the annual Blue Ribbon Automotive Awards by the Automotive Division. 

She has also served as moderator in sessions of PT’s Extrusion and Molding conferences and one on Thermoplastic Composites, which included recruiting appropriate speakers from materials and additives companies.

Lilli also attends and reports on, among other events, on the annual  conference and the  Global Plastics Summit (GPS).

She is a graduate of(Hempstead, N.Y.) and the (Bridgeport, CT), and has attended several writing courses at the .

resin pricing

May 2025: Prices for 4 of the 5 Commodity Resins Flat-to-Down

PET is the exception from this general trajectory, at least for now.

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PET

April 2025: Mixed Bag for Prices of Volume Resins

The end of the first quarter marked higher prices for polyolefins and relatively flat pricing for nearly all other resins.

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resin pricing

March 2025 Resin Pricing: Commodity Resin Prices Firm Up

Unplanned and planned production disruptions, rising feedstock costs and variables such as the potential impact of pending tariffs all factor in.

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Materials

Prices Generally Trending Upward for the Five Commodity Resins

Scheduled and unscheduled production disruptions, and projected higher feedstock costs could be key factors.

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Automotive Awards Highlight Emerging Technologies

Annual SPE Automotive event gives nods to several ‘firsts’ as well as sustainability.

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Evonik Publishes Life Cycle Assessment Data in High Performance Polymers Plastics Database

Highlighted is data on the more than 100 grades of the company’s Vestamid nylons and Trogamid transparents.

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PVC

Prices of Volume Resins Drop by Year-End

Entering 2025, prices of major commodity and volume resins are generally in a ‘buyer’s market.’

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Packaging

Packaging Converter Adopts PE-Based Vacuum Skin Packaging (VSP) for Food Applications

Videplast and ExxonMobil collaborated on the development of this cost-effective VSP film solution that contains no ionomers.

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Medical

Medical Grade TPEs for Biopharmaceutical Tubing

Teknor Apex expands its Medalist TPE portfolio.

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Additives

Light-Blocking Additive for PET Dairy Packaging

Avient’s Lactra LX additive enables blocking of 100% visible light in monolayer PET.

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Additives

OCSiAl Opens First Large-Scale Graphene Nanotube Plant

The new facility in Serbia will serve Europe, North America and Asia to drive advances in plastics and rubbers.

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INEOS Styrolution to Close ABS Production in Addyston, Ohio

Company will commence a safe and responsible decommissioning process in the second quarter of 2025.

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Blending & Dosing
Plastics Size Reduction