
Accelerate your business with global plastics solutions
Protect margins and build your business with access to expert plastics advisory services, price-risk mitigation strategies, market insights, fixed price contracts and more.
Explore our services for plastics clients
Plastics procurement
Learn how StoneX expertly manages all stages of the plastics procurement process, from sourcing to settlement.
Plastics consulting and advisory
We work hand-in-hand with our plastics clients to help manage price volatility, protect margins and boost their bottom line.
Clearing and execution
As a leading global non-bank FCM, our comprehensive suite futures clearing & execution services deliver broad exchange access and transparency to our clients who work with plastics.
OTC trading
We offer customized OTC products to help businesses that work with plastics receive tangible benefits over trading on the exchanges.
Enhance your procurement and protect profits
Few materials have grown more central to most manufacturing and wholesaling/retailing processes – and their costs – than plastics. Yet, traditional resin and packaging purchases can be susceptible to significant price swings in the plastics raw material markets – swings that can wreak havoc on budgets as they drive costs up and margins down.
The StoneX Plastics Team provides the market insights, access and expertise required to help businesses across multiple industry sectors understand the plastics markets better, make more informed purchasing decisions and protect their profit margins from price volatility.
Plastics Market Intelligence
Make more informed purchasing decisions and protect your profit margins with critical plastics price data and analysis from our team of professionals.
Gain an edge with innovative solutions
Discover our three-pronged approach to help grow your plastics market knowledge, use market data to enable more effective procurement decisions, and access the commodity markets to mitigate price risk and protect profit margins.
Plastics market insights
Stay one step ahead with access to our bi-monthly Polyolefins Update, along with insights on monthly price movements, key market drivers, cash cost elements, supply chain dynamics, logistics, key industry events and more. Explore Market Intelligence.
Advisory services
We provide guidance to business professionals such as optimizing plastic resin and packaging purchases, developing a procurement strategy, sustainability and environmental analysis and our plastics industry 101 course.
Price risk mitigation
Our budgeting program offers quantitative analysis to plan plastics purchases and sales, physical product correlations to determine what products have underlying plastics risk, and physical and financial hedging accounting.
Why choose StoneX?
We earn our clients’ business and trust by offering expertise, extensive product coverage, global reach and access to markets that few other firms can.
Perhaps more important, our clients choose us because we put you first – every time. We focus on building personal relationships and a deep understanding of your trading strategies and objectives. By striving to use our entrepreneurial, flexible and agile approach, we provide real-time solutions to clients. The result is long-term relationships that add value beyond individual deals or transactions.
Our clients
We help companies protect their profit margins across the entire plastics supply chain – from fabricators and importers/exporters to consumer goods and food and beverage companies.
Plastic fabrication
Plastics can be susceptible to significant price swings that can wreak havoc on budgets as they drive costs up and margins down. StoneX helps plastic fabricators manage volatility, protect margins and boost their bottom line.
Food & beverage
We utilize our extensive plastics expertise to help food and beverage companies grow market knowledge, use market data for more effective procurement decisions, and mitigate price risk to protect margins.
Consumer/household products
We assist businesses in the consumer and household products space OTC solutions that offer our clients customized terms aligned with your unique hedging requirements.
Additional clients
- Building & construction
- Automotive
- Medical
- Healthcare
- Electronics & appliances
Fixed contracts: A superior approach to protecting profit margins
Most end-users procure their plastics through spot purchasing and floating contracts. However, neither of these strategies provide much protection from significant swings in plastics prices. As an increasingly popular alternative, fixed contracts help mitigate the risks posed by volatile prices by using the commodity markets to “lock in” a fixed price for critical sales for an extended period.
By minimizing the price volatility of a major cost input, fixed contracts can enable more accurate forecasting & budgeting on your plastics spend and more “predictable” profit margins month to month.
Benefits of fixed contracts include:
- Greater cost certainty
- More accurate forecasting
- Improved budgeting
- Protection for profit margins
- More confidence to plan strategically
Plastics Market Intelligence
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Upcoming events
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October
8th StoneX Multicommodities Seminar
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South America
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Language: Português Brasileiro
StoneX’s largest event, aimed at bringing together market analysis and experts to provide an up-to-date and strategic overview of key agricultural markets, as well as fertilizers, energy, foreign exchange, and macroeconomics.
15
October
8th StoneX Multicommodities Seminar
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South America
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Language: Português Brasileiro
StoneX’s largest event, aimed at bringing together market analysis and experts to provide an up-to-date and strategic overview of key agricultural markets, as well as fertilizers, energy, foreign exchange, and macroeconomics.
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October
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Language: Português Brasileiro
A strategic event that brings together StoneX risk management consultants to foster networking, updates, and planning.