Acrylamide monomer market is produced by hydration of acrylonitrile (ACN). It is the raw material to produce polyacrylamide and is manufactured by more than 15 major producers.Biosynthetic route is the most widely used process for acrylamides commercial synthesis. It can also be synthesized by synthetic route. The bio-synthesis route has been preferred over the synthetic route due to its cost-efficiency. It uses immobilized nitrile hydratase biocatalyst while the synthetic route uses the costlier copper oxide catalyst. Polyacrylamide is the principal derivative of acrylamide accounting for 90% of its consumption. Any impact on polyacrylamide end-use applications market like water treatment, oil production and others will impact the...
Germany is the largest consumer of PTFE in Western Europe accounting for around 42% of the PTFE demand in the region owing to its vast automotive, electrical & electronics, chemical processing and other industrial & manufacturing sector. The country’s chemical industry is the biggest in the region and third largest in the world. Germany is also the major producer of chemicals, polymers, electrical & electronics in Europe. Electrical & electronics is Germany’s second largest industrial sector accounting for around 11% of total German industrial production, and about 3%of its gross domestic product (GDP). In terms of application, more than 40% of PTFE is utilized in chemical processing industry, 19% in mechanical industries,and 16%...
Cyclic Olefinic Copolymers Market were commercially made available by pilot-scale plant in Japan until Topas Advanced Polymers started large scale COC plant in Oberhausen, Germany. The plant capacity is estimated to be 30 Kilo Tons and global capacity of COC now is around 56 kilo tons. Cyclic Olefinic Copolymers are widely used in packaging, medical & healthcare, optical & optics, electronics and others. COC has superior optical properties with high temperature resistance and excellent moisture barrier characteristics. Major demand drivers are optical films and pharmaceutical packaging which has driven COC market at a CAGR of 5% during 2015-2017.Other major COC manufacturing players are Zeon Corporation, Mitsui Chemicals and JSR...
The global Superabsorbent Polymers market has shown moderate growth rates largely driven by rising demand from different end-use industries and from countries like in China, India and other Asia-Pacific countries (Specially South East Asia). Historically, the economically mature regions like North America and Western Europe have witnessed below average growth rates and will continue to lose their demand market share to Asia-Pacific countries like China and India. At the same time, Central & Eastern European demand is likely to grow at a higher rate of about 6.0% in the long term forecast albeit from a low base. The Central & South American region is forecast to grow at CAGR of around 5.8% till 2025; however, it will completely depend...
Exceptional heat, chemical and fire resistant properties make Polyphenylene Sulphide Market a material of choice in automotive, aerospace and coal fired power plant industries. Polyphenylene Sulphide manufacturers are concentrated majorly in Japan and U.S. while China is expected to remain the largest consumer in long term forecast.
At a global level, the butadiene demand has grown lower than the world GDP growth. Butadiene Market is not very closely related to GDP growth like that of commodity polymers that are directly correlated to the economic growth. Most of the butadiene is produced a by-product/ co-product and various other factors including production of ethylene and demand from other end-use industries cause a change in butadiene trade dynamics.
More than 50% of Adipic Acid is globally consumed for the production of Polyamide 6, 6. The shift of exports can be seen in adipic acid market where China is leading the export market due to several capacity additions in the last 10 years. China started significant export of adipic acid in 2010 and became net exporter in 2012. The exports have increased from 31 kilo tons in 2010 to around 320 kilo tons in 2017. This demographic shift of export has also led to some capacity rationalization in the U.S where In vista closed its adipic acid plant situated at Orange, Texas in 2015.
The Global POM Demand in 2017 was estimated to be about 1276 kilotons which has grown by at an aggregate rate of 4.5% per annum between 2005 and2017. Global demand is expected to grow to nearly 1693 kilo tons by 2025, witha growth rate of 3.6%