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Accelerate your business with global plastics solutions

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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

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Plastics procurement

Learn how StoneX expertly manages all stages of the plastics procurement process, from sourcing to settlement.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.

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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.
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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.
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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.
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Additional clients

  • Building & construction
  • Automotive
  • Medical
  • Healthcare
  • Electronics & appliances

Benefits of fixed contracts include: 

  • Greater cost certainty
  • More accurate forecasting
  • Improved budgeting
  • Protection for profit margins
  • More confidence to plan strategically
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. 
Plastics Market Intelligence

Discover more insights

Dive into comprehensive market analysis from StoneX spanning commodities, equities, currencies and more.

FAQ

What are commodity plastics?

Commodity plastics are derivatives of crude oil & natural gas and are produced in high volumes for numerous applications. In contrast, engineering plastics are typically used for high performance end-uses requiring exceptional strength and/or heat resistance. Commodity plastics tend to be less expensive and are used for everyday or limited-use consumer goods, food & beverage packaging, disposable items, building & construction, and healthcare items.

What are types of commodity plastics?

Types of commodity plastics include polypropylene (PP), polyethylene (PE), polystyrene (PS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) among others.
StoneX: We open markets

Our market expertise, advanced platforms, global reach, culture of full transparency and commitment to our clients’ success all set us apart in the financial marketplace.

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    Globality

    With access to 36+ derivatives exchanges, 180+ foreign exchange markets, nearly every global securities marketplace and numerous bi-lateral liquidity venues, StoneX’s digital network and deep relationships can take clients anywhere they want to go.

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    Transparency

    As a publicly traded company meeting the highest standards of regulatory compliance in the markets we serve; our financials and record of accomplishment are matters of public record. StoneX’s commitment to “doing the right thing over the easy thing” sets us apart in the industry and helps us build respect, client trust and new partnerships.

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    Expertise

    From our proprietary Market Intelligence platform, to “boots on the ground” expertise from award-winning traders and professionals, we connect our clients directly to actionable insights they can use to make more informed decisions and achieve their goals in the global markets.

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