economics
Resin and Energy Prices Will Stay High Through Winter
The overall U.S. economy will continue to expand at a sustainable rate during the next few quarters, but energy prices are expected to remain at high levels.
Read MoreRetail Sales Data Point to Continued Economic Expansion
Consumers are the engine that powers the U.S. economy.
Read MoreEconomic Update: A Strong, But Not Spectacular, Year for Plastics
After the slight decline in U.S. output of plastics products in 2003, our latest forecast calls for a gain of 6% in plastics processing activity this year.
Read MoreNPE: What's Different This Time
War, terrorism, and a sluggish global economy aren’t enough to keep NPE 2003 from being a fascinating show.
Read MoreFear of Buying
President Bush has urged American consumers to go on about their lives, spend money, keep the economy going. That advice can’t come too soon for plastics processors anxious to get idle machines working.
Read MoreLagging Behind in the Productivity Race
Exactly two years ago, I discussed here some surprising statistics in Contributions of Plastics to the U.S. Economy 1997, a report from the Society of the Plastics Industry in Washington, D.C.
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