LDPE film demand increases on the West Coast
The tight trucking market also is affecting movement.
Plastic film scrap has seen strong demand heading into 2021, and the availability of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottle scrap has tightened. Regardless of which material contacts are sourcing, all of them point to transportation issues that are making movement of material more difficult and expensive.
“Scrap availability for postconsumer A Grade film is very tight,” says Charlotte Fischer, senior commodities manager for PreZero US Inc.’s Jurupa Valley, California, plant. She attributes that in part to more aggressive buying by consumers in Indonesia, Malaysia and India, the latter of which she describes as actively buying off the West and East coasts. Additionally, she says, “Some LDPE (low-density polyethylene) mills in Taiwan are coming into the market to buy film.”
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