Analysis of the profitability of the West European refining and petrochemical industry for third quarter 2002.

The chemistry, process technology, and production economics of ethanolamines is presented. Special emphasis is given to comparing conventional uncatalyzed process to the emerging Nippon Shokubai catalyzed process.

Information on prices, new capacity update, new developments in the market and industry structure (e.g., M&A), for April to June of 2002 for each geographic region

Analysis and forecast of global supply/demand and capacity for LLDPE, LDPE, HDPE, and polypropylene including year-end 2001 data. Discussion of developments for metallocene and single-site polyolefins and demand forecast.