S&P Global Commodity Insights CONTRIBUTOR
Kristen is based in Houston and focuses on export logistics and polyvinyl chloride markets. Full Bio
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Jan 2024
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Chemicals
  • Olefins
  • Polymers
  • Solvents & Intermediates
  • Energy Transition
  • Metals
  • Non-Ferrous

Pipes, food security and energy transition: Orbia's growth expands beyond its Mexican roots

In 1953 Mexican and American investors formed a Mexico-based company that handled high carbon steel wire ropes. By 2005 the company became MexiChem, buying up dozens of smaller companies that handle industrial chemicals, including polyvinyl chloride

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  • Blog
Jan 2023
  • Petrochemicals
  • Metals
  • Shipping
  • Polymers
  • Non-Ferrous
  • Containers

The party's over: Interest rates, inflation, oversupply siphon COVID-fueled polymer demand

Hot global polymer demand that pushed prices to record highs since mid-2020 started cooling in 2022 amid rising interest rates, high inflation and less-than-stellar timing of new production startups

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  • Blog
Sep 2022
  • Petrochemicals
  • Polymers

Nowhere to hide: Global polymer prices plunging after two years of growth

It took a global pandemic’s pent-up demand, supply disruptions on extreme weather, cheap borrowing costs and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to send worldwide polymer prices to all-time highs since mid-2020

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