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Chemicals industry crystal ball: White paper hub

Written by Tecnon OrbiChem | December 14, 2022

In all, our ChemForesight service provides commentary and graphical analysis of price movements and predictions for 43 chemicals.

In the fourth white paper of the series A chemicals industry crystal ball is commentary, graphs and price level forecasting for polyamide, caprolactam, polypropylene, polyurethanes feedstock MDI plus a range of plasticisers.  

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A chemicals industry crystal ball: Forecasting key products

This latest in the series of white papers to leverage insight and datasets from our ChemForesight service deepo dives into DIDP, DPHP and DINP markets globally. The way that the global plasticisers market is changing is a subject we explored in our earlier blog post An investigation of plasticisers in the 21st century

White paper Part 3

A trio of chemicals key to the manufacture of PET packaging – purified terephthalic acid (PTA), isophthalic acid (PIA) and ethylene glycol (also known as monoethylene glycol) – feature in the third white paper of our series.

Part 3 also explores mixed xylenes, diethylene glycol (DEG), adipic acid, n-Butanol, propylene oxide, epichlorohydrin (ECH) and monopropylene glycol (MPG). Manufacturing MPG used in food & beverages, plastics, liquid detergents, paint, antifreeze as well as pharma and cosmetics consumes in excess of two billion pounds (lbs) per year of petroleum.

Earlier this year we explored biobased routes in our blog post Biobased monopropylene glycol: A bumpy road to a decarbonised world.

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A chemicals industry crystal ball: Forecasting key products

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ChemForesight leverages datasets prepared by our consultants based on regular interaction with a roster of producers, industry contacts and market participants. The datasets, which are available to subscribers of our chemicals business intelligence platform OrbiChem360, help our analysts assess the relative tightness of given markets.

White paper Part 2 

Key polyurethanes feedstock 1,4-Butanodiol (BDO) as well as benzene, toluene and methanol feature in the second white paper. As with prior iterations in the series, there is commentary plus graphs showing price levels from 2018 to December 2022 and predicted to 2024.

The second white paper also focuses on styrene, chlorine, ethylene oxide and acetic anhydride.

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A chemicals industry crystal ball: Forecasting key products

White paper Part1 

Our first white paper in the series explored the chemical families of phenol, chlor-alkali and caustic soda and key polyurethanes raw material TDI. 

The monomer methyl methacrylate (MMA), PET, acrylonitrile, acetic acid, vinyl acetate monomer (VAM), ethylene and maleic anhydride

For a demo of ChemForesight and/or more information on how our chemicals intelligence data platform OrbiChem360 can bring visibility to supply chains relevant to your business – and aid planning and procurement – email us at info@orbichem.com.