The 2019 Cost Curve Analysis model for Ethylene - Polyethylene and Propylene - Polypropylene combines Nexant’s global plant capacity database and views on supply and demand with an extensive cost of production database and Nexant’s annual price forecasts developed for three oil scenarios.  Delivered as an interactive spreadsheet, the model offers views of historical, current, and forecast cost competitiveness and profitability for the industry.    

This TECH report focuses on the technology for the recycling of multilayer packaging, sorting of mixed plastics, compatibilization process and production of post-consumer plastics-asphalt mixtures. The report provides an estimate of the cost of production for sorting of mixed plastic waste using NIR, Laser, electrostatic separation, and the compatibilization process (for U.S. and Western Europe). Major suppliers for optical sorting equipment, major suppliers of compatibilizers, and technology holders for selective dissolution process are profiled.  

Analysis of the profitability of the Petrochemicals and Polymers in the Middle East for the third quarter of 2019.

Hydrogen peroxide is one of the most powerful oxidizing agents known.  Global demand is forecast to grow by 4.7 percent per annum on average, well above GDP level.  Nearly all capacity is based on the anthraquinone auto-oxidation process.  However, most R&D efforts are directed toward developing a direct synthesis route (i.e., without the use of an anthraquinone working compound).  Thus, the cost of production via those routes for plants located in the United States, Western Europe, the Middle East, and China has been estimated for the second quarter of 2019.  The report also comments on the motivations behind the recent capacity additions and provided a high-level analysis of the business and strategic considerations as well as the technology availability from the perspective of a company entering or expanding into the hydrogen peroxide market.  This analysis is underpinned by a review of end-use sector consumption as well as regional market dynamics.