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Market intel, expertise, and price risk management to enhance procurement and protect profits
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Optimize your procurement decisions and safeguard your margins with data-driven insights from the StoneX team.
Plastics 101 education
Optimizing plastic resin / packaging services
“Should cost” modeling support
Sustainability/environmental support
Market insights
Analysis of fundamental factors affecting the market
Bi-monthly polyolefins update
Weekly video: Monthly price moves / Near-term outlook
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Market Intelligence
Concise 3-4 minute video digest of weekly developments in the plastics markets.
Weekly Plastics Markets Update
Discover the benefits of hedging via plastics swaps with our convenient self-paced video tutorials.
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Review archived presentations featuring in-depth market analysis from the StoneX Plastics team.
Webinars On Demand
Comprehensive library including contract specs, product listings, who can benefit from hedging plastics and how it works.
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Resources, tools and strategies to navigate volatile plastics markets with confidence
Alex Hodes
Energy Analyst
StoneX Financial Inc. - FCM Division
Energy and plastics data analyst with expertise in quantitative modeling, forecasting, and data science. I have a passion for finding meaning from data. I have been an analyst with StoneX since 2018 and am a certified commodity broker. Working amongst energy brokers allows me to produce market reports for clients that identify risks and provide a clear picture of what to expect in energy markets ranging from crude oil to plastics.
Bruce Benefiel
Co-Director of Energy Trading StoneX Markets LLC
Bruce holds expertise in managing client risk and simultaneously enhancing margins in energy markets through futures and OTC derivative instruments. In his 21 years with StoneX his primary roles have been in managing trading books in energy products of oil and refined products as well as natural gas and natural gas liquids. Sponsoring the new plastics initiative and adding polypropylene and polyethene is a testimony to his commitment toward clients with real risk management opportunities that support their business’s bottom line.
Howard Rappaport
Subject Matter Expert-Plastics; Contractor at StoneX
StoneX Financial Inc. - FCM Division
Howard is a veteran chemical industry executive and consultant with decades of supply chain management and cross functional collaboration experience yielding significant business growth, innovation, and market development. His career combines two decades of “hands on” chemical & plastics industry business management with several major chemical companies, followed by 20 years as a globally recognized chemical industry analyst & consultant. Currently focused on providing solutions for plastics consumers / end-users to help mitigate their price risk exposure through market insights, advisory services, and resin hedging solutions.
Howard Rappaport
Senior Risk Management Consultant with StoneX based in Alberta, Canada
Howard is a veteran chemical industry executive and consultant with decades of supply chain management and cross functional collaboration experience yielding significant business growth, innovation, and market development. His career combines two decades of “hands on” chemical & plastics industry business management with several major chemical companies, followed by 20 years as a globally recognized chemical industry analyst & consultant. Currently focused on providing solutions for plastics consumers / end-users to help mitigate their price risk exposure through market insights, advisory services, and resin hedging solutions.
Bruce Benefiel
Co-Director of Energy Trading StoneX Markets LLC
Bruce holds expertise in managing client risk and simultaneously enhancing margins in energy markets through futures and OTC derivative instruments. In his 21 years with StoneX his primary roles have been in managing trading books in energy products of oil and refined products as well as natural gas and natural gas liquids. Sponsoring the new plastics initiative and adding polypropylene and polyethene is a testimony to his commitment toward clients with real risk management opportunities that support their business’s bottom line.
Alex Hodes
Energy Analyst
StoneX Financial Inc. - FCM Division
Energy and plastics data analyst with expertise in quantitative modeling, forecasting, and data science. I have a passion for finding meaning from data. I have been an analyst with StoneX since 2018 and am a certified commodity broker. Working amongst energy brokers allows me to produce market reports for clients that identify risks and provide a clear picture of what to expect in energy markets ranging from crude oil to plastics.
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Ready to Talk?
Take control of your plastics procurement and protect your profits. Contact the StoneX Plastics team today and let us help you navigate the ever-changing landscape of the plastics industry.
Ready to Talk?
Take control of your plastics procurement and protect your profits. Contact the StoneX Plastics team today and let us help you navigate the ever-changing landscape of the plastics industry.
If you have any questions about our products or services, please submit your inquiry here.
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Optimize your procurement decisions and safeguard your margins with data-driven insights from the StoneX team.
Plastics 101 education
Optimizing plastic resin / packaging services
“Should cost” modeling support
Sustainability/environmental support
Limit risk and market uncertainty
Tap our deep expertise and broad access to markets to help you build and manage toward your business goals
The tools you need to build operational resilience
Know-Risk Crop marketing
Canadian grain farms and feedlots work with us to confidently make crop marketing decisions, understand the global markets impacts on their operation, and manage their price risk exposure. Designed specifically for Western Canadian Farmers, Know-Risk Crop Marketing is the most robust crop marketing service in Canada.
The Know-Risk Advantage:
- Unbiased: we work for you, not the grain buyers
- A suite of pricing tools – both physical and financial – adapted to your crop marketing needs
- A true risk management approach to manage margin and reduce volatility in your business
- Start-to-finish execution across the entire plan
- Educational resources and events on financial hedging and physical sales strategies.
Market insights
Analysis of fundamental factors affecting the market
Price risk mitigation
Safeguard your business with a tailored budgeting program, including:
StoneX Plastics Services
Market intel, expertise, and price risk management to enhance procurement and protect profits.
Advisory Services
Bi-monthly polyolefins update
Weekly video: Monthly price moves / Near-term outlook
Cash cost elements
Supply chain dynamics
Bi-monthly polyolefins update
Weekly video: Monthly price moves / Near-term outlook
Cash cost elements
Supply chain dynamics
Drive more growth, preserve your profits and secure your bottom line with education, support and budgeting tools from StoneX
Subject Matter Expert-Plastics; Contractor at StoneX
StoneX Financial Inc. - FCM Division
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