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Knowde brings online marketplace to plastics
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An increasingly digital world is creating opportunities for online platform Knowde and suppliers such as Braskem America and DuPont Co.
San Jose, Calif.-based Knowde officially launched its plastics, elastomers and polymer additives platform in early May. Officials said the online platform allows plastics and elastomers specifiers, converters, compounders and buyers to search, filter, collaborate, request samples and quotes and purchase from hundreds of producers all in one place.
Using Knowde, processors can find what they need fast and get to market faster, they said. Customers are spending more time online, co-founder and CEO Ali Amin-Jahaveri said in an interview with
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US spot polymer-grade propylene is expected to continue on an upward trend amid healthy downstream polypropylene demand, according to sources. Spot ethylene is expected to be lower in the week beginning May 10 amid healthy supply following cracker restarts last month, sources said.
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US spot export polyvinyl chloride prices are expected to remain in a range of $1,745-$1,755/mt FAS Houston the week of May 10, amid continued tight supply. Formosa Plastics USA was conducting a turnaround at its 612,000 mt/year PVC plant in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Westlake Chemical had a turnaround slated to begin in mid-May at one of its three chlor-alkali units in Lake Charles, Louisiana. Both turnarounds were expected to keep overall PVC output tight going into June. While prices could retreat, any decline is expected to be gradual, according to market sources. Upstream, US contract caustic soda and chlorine prices are expected to rise, as previously announce
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