Companies likely to buy plastics and polymers in North America: building or expanding in paper and packaging, automotive, construction and building materials, food and beverage, pharma and life sciences, textiles, semiconductors and electronics, batteries and evs, customers of recent contracts in those markets, and acquired companies in them, over the last 18 months. Ranked by how recent, how large and how far along each signal is; companies in plastics and polymers themselves are left out as competitors.