The Plastics Exchange
Internet Marketplace PlatformsIllinois, United States11-50 Employees
The Plastics Exchange operates as a real-time, anonymized marketplace for trading domestic and international commodity-grade resins, including HDPE, LDPE, LLDPE, HoPP, and CoPP. It facilitates trades in prime and offgrade materials delivered by railcar, bulk or packaged truckloads, and full container loads, with all orders geared toward actual delivery. The platform acts as a clearinghouse, taking on credit and logistics responsibilities while guaranteeing product quality, delivery, and payment, and it maintains a large inventory to support market liquidity. Based in Chicago, Illinois, the company serves a network of producers, distributors, traders, and brokers, offering daily and periodic market data, pricing history, and market updates to inform buying and selling decisions. The Plastics Exchange positions itself within the internet marketplace platforms sector, providing trading tools and research without charge to industry participants, and it offers RFQ services to source specific resin needs when listed offerings do not match a buyer’s requirements.