The chemistry, process technology, and production economics for PVC are assessed. End-uses and regional supply/demand forecasts are also provided.

The chemistry and speculative production economics for potentially interesting barrier monomers for PET are presented. The performance and costs of PET modified with these new monomers is also assessed.

The chemistry, process technology, and production economics for copolyester and copolyamide elastomers and key precursors are presented. In addition, the regional market outlook for these materials out to 2007 is provided.

The chemistry, process technology, and production economics of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) manufacture is presented. The new DuPont NG3 PET process is compared to the conventional process. In addition, the supply/demand outlook for PET out to 2010