This techno-economic report offers a review of chemistry, properties, technology, and development trends of Bisphenol A (BPA). The report provides economics for BPA for several different global locations (USGC, Western Europe, and China) under a consistent first quarter 2017 price scenario. The report also provides a regional market analysis.

This report presents the commercial and developing isopropanol technologies.  Production economics for producers located in the USGC, Western Europe and China are provided for the three commercial routes along with an overview of isopropanol consumption, capacity and trade for global and major regional markets.

This report provides a detailed analysis of the alpha olefins industry including butene-1, hexene-1 and octene-1 and higher alpha olefins.  Butene-1, hexene-1 and octene-1 end-use is segmented by LLDPE, HDPE and 'Others'.  Demand by end-use and the supply, demand and trade analysis is presented for 40 countries with forecasts to 2035.  A review of the chemistry and process technology is also included.

This report provides an analysis of key developments in the ammonia and urea industry, including capacity updates, profitability, and pricing developments over the past quarter. The report includes monthly price and profitability analysis for ammonia and urea with a detailed discussion on the market forces (affecting price and profitability) over the fourth quarter in the United States, Western Europe, Middle East and China. The analysis now includes both mine-mouth plant economics and coastal plant economics for ammonia and urea in China. Outlook on firm  global capacity developments from 2017 to 2021 is also provided. The Key Trends & Challenges section provides an overview of the Middle East natural gas and ammonia/urea market.