The process technology and production economics for polystyrene (GPPS, High Temperature, HIPS, EPS, and syndiotactic) and ABS (emulsion, bulk/mass, and hydrid) are presented. Regional supply/demand forecasts for PS and ABS out to 2005 are also given.
This report forecasts MTBE demand out to 2010 and assesses the impact of the phaseout on the U.S. gasoline pool. Price setting mechanisms and pricing forecasts for aromatics, propylene, and ethylene are presented.
Process technology and production economics for conventional stream cracking as well as propane dehydro, olefin metathesis, deep catalytic cracking and selective C4/C5 cracking. Supply/demand forecasts for ethylene and propylene are also provided.
The process technology and production economics for crude and purified acrylic acid as well as butyl and ethyl acrylate. Supply/demand forecasts out to 2005 are also presented.
The process technology and production economics of natural fatty acids, fatty amines, fatty alcohols, and natural linear alcohols are presented. The production economics of synthetic detergent range alcohols are provided as basis for comparison.
Information on prices, new capacity update, new developments in the market and industry structure (e.g., M&A), for January to April of 2001 for each geographic region