New Year, higher pricesNew Year, higher prices

Polyolefins supplier LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, Netherlands) announced it has increased the prices it charges on all of its polyethylene and on all of its polypropylene grades by €100 per tonne in Europe. “Escalating feedstock costs have necessitated this price increase,” said Anton de Vries, LyondellBasell’s president of Europe, Asia and International, in a brief statement. —[email protected]