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How To Grow Sales In A Deflationary World

By John Richardson CHINA hugely increased its propylene and derivatives capacity to the point where by 2011, it became the first region or country where downstream propylene consumption surpassed that of ethylene. This didn’t mean booming actual demand for propylene and what it is used to make. Instead, it meant that lots of “empty factories” […]

China, Polyolefins And The New Five-Year-Plan

By John Richardson CHINA is still a planned economy, but everything doesn’t always work out as planned – hence the above chart, which shows that: Installed ethylene capacity will by the end of this year be around 3.5 million tonnes/year lower than the government’s target of approximately 26 million tonnes/year. This was the capacity Beijing […]

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