Ajinomoto’s amino acid technologies division announced a 10% price increase across all of its markets due to rising costs of manufacturing and transportation.
Drug packaging maker West Pharmaceutical Services release its 3Q
results, which indicate a rise in profits but fell short of analyst
estimates, due to slow sales in some segments and high raw material
and energy costs.
Soaring energy costs are driving up the price of packaging
materials. Anthony Fletcher looks at the state of the market
for polyethylene, polypropylene and polystyrene.