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A mark of maturity for materials marketplaces

Internet-based marketplaces for materials used in packaging have come a long way since their inception. This month we’ll focus on two sites that packagers and converters can use to purchase plastics and paper.

PlasticsNet
PlasticsNet

PlasticsNet (www.plasticsnet.com) is one of the leading Internet marketplaces for plastics. It brings together buyers and sellers of plastic resin (for all applications, not just packaging). From its earliest days, the site has offered the ability to purchase resins via an on-line marketplace. For this marketplace, pricing is fixed. But the site has introduced auction-style pricing for limited-supply products.

However, what’s new and interesting on this site is the “My Purchasing Center” capability. You can set up your own custom catalog of an unlimited number of products from multiple suppliers. Keeping commonly used vendor and product data in one place ostensibly simplifies re-ordering. There is no cost for this service.

Paper, too

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