Industry: Specialty polymers

ADI Chemical Market Resources (ADI CMR) has released a strategic study on polyacetal (POM) technologies, covering homopolymers and copolymers used in engineering applications. With strong mechanical and dimensional stability, POM is widely used in automotive, electrical, and consumer sectors. The report analyzes long-term market trends, supply-demand dynamics, cost economics, and pricing forecasts. Backed by proprietary […]

My Turn – Commentary Petrochemical Step Children of Big Oil Companies – Time to Wake Up! Dr. Balaji B. Singh Global petrochemicals can broadly be classified into two classes: (1) those with oil company heritage and (2) those without oil company heritage. The petrochemical companies with oil company heritage suffer a double whammy – When […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – A New Revolution Coming up in Polyolefins – Olefin Block Copolymers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Olefin Block Copolymers – The Next Product Offering from the Polyolefin Innovators? The concept of olefin copolymers (random, and/or block, segmented, reproducible, homopolymer-based, copolymer based, stereospecific, etc.,) has been […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – The Need for Business Training for Technical Professionals – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Need for Business Training for Technical Professionals – The Global move to equalize prosperity results in a slight lull for advanced and super innovations for a while (justifiably so.. until balanced prosperity/living […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Going to India – India is currently the land of opportunity for new and innovative petrochemicals and plastics developments. However, the outside opinion of India is much influenced by Reliance’s operations, plans, and forecasts. There is a whole world out there […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers –The Shift of Basic R&D to India and China – Dr. Balaji B. Singh The polymer industry unanimously decided to shift the basic R&D functions to China and/or India. Both China and India, without a doubt, offer a better Intellectual capita/ R&D dollar. The shift, last […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh India – China Opportunities and Reactions of people who visit for the first time With PlastIndia just completed and ChinaPlas around the corner, the thoughts turn to the media coverage of the plastics industry and life in these countries. It has […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Conferences serve a vital role in keeping up with the latest developments and interacting with colleagues who have the same goals and objectives in mind. We don’t understand what it is with the organizations. The marketing/salespeople who have the money are […]

My Turn – Commentary on Global Polyolefins and Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Disappearing Giants of Polyolefins and Elastomers – With the recent disappearance of Amoco-BP-Innovene, another giant bit the dust. The difference this time – Innovene a much-tooted polyolefins spin-off of BP-Amoco did not even survive the first anniversary of their inauguration. We […]

My Turn- Commentary on Global Polyolefins & Elastomers – Dr. Balaji B. Singh Most polyolefins & elastomers are preoccupied with Global developments in the next decade. All the major organizations are planning on production facilities for commodity-oriented polyolefins for developing countries and are putting most of the innovations and specialties (a bad word) on hold. […]

Titan to undergo expansions – adding polypropylene and metathesis unit Titan Chemicals is investing $158 to expand its petrochemical complex in the southern Malaysia state of Johore, a company. The company plans to build a 100 KT/year butadiene plant, a new metathesis unit to produce at least 115 KT/year of propylene, and a second 130 […]

Polyolefin producers announce third-quarter earnings Dow Chemical Dow Chemical reported third-quarter earnings under which it stated that the sales for the three months ended September 30 set a new third-quarter record of $11.3 billion, 12% higher than the same period in 2004. Net income rose 30% to $801 million, while earnings per share were $0.82, […]