A Global PP Shortage Has One Rule: Good Customers Get Packaging Material. Others Don’t!

Stop Negotiating. Start Securing. The PP Shortage Has Changed the Rules. Your supplier has less polypropylene than you need. What happens next depends entirely on you! The global polypropylene market has entered a supply crisis unlike anything seen in recent years. The US-Iran conflict and escalating Middle East war have created a genuine, structural shock […]

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The War With Iran Is Not Ending Soon — And Your Packaging Costs Will Reflect That

Photo via Unsplash Supply Chain · Market Analysis Markets priced in a swift resolution the moment Trump said “very complete, pretty much.” But physical supply chains — the ones that determine when your packaging arrives, and at what cost — operate on a fundamentally different timeline. This crisis will affect procurement decisions for longer than

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Middle East Supply Crisis: What Surging PP and PE Prices Mean for the Global Packaging Industry

Market Intelligence| Raw Materials | PP & PE | Adpack Limited  | March 2026 Middle East Supply Crisis: What Surging PP and PE Prices Mean for the Global Packaging Industry The Strait of Hormuz — the world’s most critical chokepoint for polymer supply — is at the centre of a rapidly escalating crisis. PP and

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Light Ahead: What the De-escalation Signals Mean for Your Packaging Supply Chain

Photo via Unsplash Market Outlook · Recovery Signal The past two weeks have been the most disruptive the global polymer supply chain has seen in years. Oil at USD 120 per barrel. PP spot offers withdrawn. Cape rerouting adding 14 days to every Asian shipment. Force majeure declarations from Gulf producers. For procurement managers in

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Kenya’s Packaging Buyers Are Facing Five Simultaneous Shocks — Not One

Photo by Arturo Añez on Unsplash Market Intelligence · East Africa The Iran conflict is not delivering a single oil price problem to Kenya’s manufacturing and agri-processing sector. According to a flash note published on 9 March 2026 by Stanbic Bank Kenya’s research team, the country faces at least five concurrent transmission channels — higher

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