The week's leading records across the markets we watch, with our view on each.
Repair and maintenance grew while new work, led by private housing, shrank, which favours overlay roofing, coatings and patch repair products. New orders rising 1.2% hints at firmer new-build demand next year, though orders do not always turn into starts.
Price intentions across UK business are heading up, and manufacturers are barely more confident than in June. This is a survey of plans, not actual increases, but resin and coatings suppliers rarely absorb energy costs for long.
Oil stays dear through year end and only eases next year, on an official forecast. Resin and bitumen costs follow crude, so expect firm prices on roofing and laminating resins this winter; cheaper US gas does little for UK buyers.
Lab laminates of hybrid epoxy released far less heat in cone calorimeter tests, at one thickness and one heat flux. HB is a basic plastics rating, not a building fire class, so nothing to act on yet.
Ownership of a Chilean composites materials business is changing hands, on the strength of one company's statement and with completion set for Q1 2027. The deal concerns Latin American markets rather than UK supply, so nothing to act on yet.
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Experimental Heat Transfer · 11 Nov 2026
Fire · 11 Nov 2026
Journal of Reinforced Plastics and Composites · 11 Nov 2026
Mechanics of Composite Materials · 11 Nov 2026
Materials Science Forum · 11 Nov 2026
International Journal of Polymer Analysis and Characterization · 11 Nov 2026
Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials · 11 Nov 2026
Polymer Composites · 10 Nov 2026
SMMT · 9 Nov 2026
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