Analysis and forecast of Middle East supply/demand and capacity for LLDPE, LDPE, HDPE, and polypropylene including year-end 2001 data. Discussion of future developments for polyolefins and demand forecast within the region.
The chemistry, process technologies, and production economics for acrylamide are assessed. Conventional heterogeneous catalyzed process is compared to the lastest biotransformation route as well as an emerging catalytic distillation process.
The chemistry, process technology, and production economics for vinyl acetate, polyvinyl alcohol, and polyvinyl butyral are presented. In addition, the market outlook for polyvinyl alcohol is assessed.
The chemistry, process technology, and production economics for the new polymer, polytrimethylene terephthalate is presented. Shell’s petrochemical route to the polymer precursor, PDO, is contrasted to DuPont’s biotech approach.
Information on prices, new capacity update, new developments in the market and industry structure (e.g., M&A), for July to September of 2002 for each geographic region
The chemistry, process technology and economics of the latest approaches for dealing with stricter sulfur specifications in gasoline in the U.S. and Western Europe are assessed.