LONDON – Today’s high demand for salt from the synthetic soda ash production, food processing, de-icing industries is defining for the salt industry growth. Total world demand for salt is projected to rise up to 290 m tones in the …

LONDON – The ethylene dichloride (EDC) industry relies largely on the total PVC demand as it contributes substantially to the EDC consumption expansion. As PVC is being inevitably used in the growing number of industries as a substitute for wood, …

LONDON – The styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) demand depends rigidly on the tyres and tyre products industry – up to 70% of the SBR consumption belongs to the automobile sector. Due to a number of new-age developments in the tyre technology in …

LONDON – The expandable polystyrene (EPS) market activity is at low ebb today. The trade activities are slowing down, the prices for the material are rising up. The total demand for EPS is indicating considerable falls nowadays as key consumers …

LONDON – The acrylonitrile markets in Europe and the USA are forecast to witness slight declines. The demand growth rates rest at rather low levels and the feedstock price for the material is surging. The developed economies have seen a …

LONDON – The polyethylene linear low density (LLDPE) demand on the global market is moving steadily forward – its growth is driven largely by the developing LLDPE industries in the countries of Asia-Pacific and Eastern Europe. The application share of …

LONDON – IAs the crises period is behind, the methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) producers are gaining the pre-crises production levels and lost performance which already proves to be a success. The MEK industry is highly dependent on the automotive, furniture …

LONDON – The monoethylene glycol market suffered considerable tightness before the revival year of 2010. Due to a whole row of facilities closures the projected oversupply of the material failed. The industry witnessed decline in production and also rather significant …

LONDON – The overall nitrobenzene market standing, its trends and development are largely impacted by the demand for aniline and aniline derivatives, the largest end-use fields of nitrobenzene. Moreover large-scale influence is added by the benzene availability as the source …

LONDON – Today the key end-use areas of formaldehyde are urea-, phenol-, and melamine-formaldehyde resins – they account for approximately 66% of the total demand on the global formaldehyde market. As these industries are on the growth path after the …

LONDON – The aniline industry worldwide experienced a wave of renewed facilities operations during the last years. The years of 2010 and 2011 brought around high-scale operation rates compared to the levels during the recession period. Thus in China aniline …

LONDON – Following the slumping recession period and the slow revival state during the post-crisis years, the global market for polypropylene is seeing considerable demand increases as the key end-use fields expand production volumes. On the other hand, some forecasts …

LONDON – Following a demolishing period of demand and production slump during the crisis years, today’s sodium chlorate industry is demonstrating good results in moving forward and expanding its volumes. The average annual growth rates have been successfully passable starting …

LONDON – The global cyclohexane industry growth is highly dependent on the total growth of various end-use markets in the developing countries like China, India and Saudi Arabia. The Chinese market is set to retain its high-scale increase of nylon …

LONDON – The Asian and Middle-East countries are considered to enjoy key propelling industries to drive the world ethylene oxide market. These developing markets are forecast to witness 5-6% ethylene oxide activity growth pulled by a large number of new …

LONDON – The demand on the global butadiene market is indicating reasonable growth – it is also expected that it will move upwards by 2-2,5% annually in the coming 5-6 years. The butadiene markets in the developed countries are not …

LONDON – Nitrile rubber industry has the gloomy recession period in the past already. The market is on a steady revival path with the shut-down facilities being in a re-open stage. Due to the increasing activities within the automobile and …

LONDON – The potassium hydroxide market is indicating steadfast growth due to the vast pressure on the agricultural fertilizers that comes from the rising demand for food throughout the globe today. Potassium hydroxide capacities are constantly on increase and are …

LONDON – The total global demand on the polyethylene low density (LDPE) market is growing today at a stable rate of around 2%. For the past 3 years the key driver of the world demand growth has been the application …

LONDON – The propylene oxide market has been witnessing positive sustainable movements during the year of 2011, opposite to the market landscape during the previous recession period. In 2008-2010 the demand was sluggish and the trading activity indicated steep falls …

LONDON – During the last decade the total global market of benzene has been largely tight in supply. Above the complicated market balance standing, the world recession undermined this market to a vast extent. Therefore the prices for benzene have …

LONDON – During the economic recession the global polystyrene market has witnessed big downfalls in the feedstock and consumption levels. The market was largely impacted by a whole row of factors such as skyrocketing styrene prices, harsh competition from polypropylene, …

LONDON – The demand on the global butanediol market has shown completely positive levels during the past decade. It is worth noticing that during the global recession the demand volume index rested at as high as approximately 1.5 mln tons …

LONDON – Today the developed economies of Europe and the USA have reached a standpoint on the polyethylene high density (HDPE) markets – the indexes are resting at the saturation level. These countries are the key exports of HDPE to …

LONDON – The o-xylene industry is projected to undergo considerable cutbacks in a number of regions, including the Asian countries. The supply is going to be tight in the coming years as producers are hectically looking for options to minimize …