Fertilizer resilience highlights how geopolitical carve-outs create durable moats, making sanction circumvention, rerouting agility, and compliance sophistication as valuable as traditional feedstock advantage.
General Thoughts: Easing mortgage rates and falling material costs prime housing’s turn, setting the stage for 2026 PVC and PU demand growth as integrated leaders
Two significant observations from Pack Expo are that price visibility in the US polyethylene (PE) market is low, and the importance of plastic producer alignment