Chemical market analysis

Methodology. Practitioners of chemical market research develop iadividual styles and techniques. However, four elements are essential to every useful study defining the problem, data gathering, analysis of data, and presentation of findings. 

Analysis of Data. A veteran practitioner of chemical market research likened this step to the assembly of a jigsaw puzzle. There are many pieces of unequal size and importance that must be put together to make a picture understandable to everyone. Call reports, secondary data inputs, experience, and judgment are the tools used by the market researcher to analyze the data, reach conclusions, make recommendations, and write the report. 

World Vinyls Analysis, Chemical Market Associates, Inc., Houston, Tex., Oct. 1988. 

W. M. Meylan and P. H. Howard, Chemical Market Input] Ouput Analysis of Selected Chemical Substances to Assess Sources of Environmental Contamination ... 

Petrochemical Keport, SRI International, Palo Alto, Calif., 1989 1989 World Benzene Analysis, Chemical Marketing Association, Inc., Houston, Tex., 1989 1990—91 Toluene IKjlenes Jlnnml, DeWitt Co., Houston, Tex., 1990. 

The values of raw materials and products can be found in trade journals such as Chemical Marketing Reporter (published by Schnell Publishing Company), European Chemical News and Asian Chemical News (published by Reed Business Information). However, the values reported in such sources will be subject to short-term fluctuations, and long-term forecasts will be required for investment analysis. 

RNCOS (2007) EU Chemical Industry Analysis Report, RNCOS Market Research Solutions. 

Neverthless, it is possible to analyze the information supplied by industry on new chemicals and summarize it in a way which does not breach CBI. This is what I have done in preparing this paper and it is the work of many of my cohorts within the Office of Toxic Substances. I intend to summarize the experience of EPA in dealing with these notices including an analysis of the classes and types of new chemicals, market areas, company size and other data. From this I will draw some conclusions about the impact of this requirement of TSCA on new product innovation and will describe what EPA is doing about it. 

Hypothesis (5) Chemical innovation takes place not only in chemicals . The invention of snbstance applications and the sale of advantage instead of substances are also part of it. In addition, even extremely small market shares of products with an explicit environmental or health-related quality can indirectly become driving forces of improvement innovations in the entire market. This means that the real innovation processes in the domain of chemicals cannot be recorded adequately either solely by statistics relating to new substance registrations or solely by the classic instruments of market analysis. 

The toolkit covers the main steps to be undertaken to ensure smooth and efficient application of Chemical Leasing in industries of different sectors and countries. Starting from a detailed market analysis and screening process to define the most suitable sectors and companies in a given country, the toolkit provides guidelines on the implementation and monitoring of Chemical Leasing business models at plant level. 

Chemical Market Associates Inc. (CMAI), 1989 WorldEight Olefins Analysis, Houston, Tex., Aug. 1989. 

Source SRI Consulting 2004, McKinsey analysis Fig. 8.1 Specialty chemicals market segments. 

Shan, Cheng-gang, Status of Production and Demand and Market Analysis of Melamine, Modem Chemical Industry, Author s Abstract, January 2002. (www.xdhg.com.cn/article/2002/abs/e-abs-2002-01.html). 

This brief outline suggests that the plant-design project involves a wide variety of skills. Among these are research, market analysis, design of individual pieces of equipment, cost estimation, computer programming, and plant-location surveys. In fact, the services of a chemical engineer are needed in each step of the outline, either in a central creative role, or as a key advisor. 

Chemical mechanical polishing equipment and materials a technical and market analysis. http //www.bccresearch.com/avm/AVM047A.asp, December 2003. 

Government chemical statistics generally can be used to advantage by both large and small manufacturers. They form the base for analysis of trends and survey of markets without such a base, chemical market research would be much more difficult to accomplish and results much more open to question. 

Besides the application of market share analysis to monitor sales relative to external criteria, correlation techniques can also be helpful to Market Research. To develop suitable factors of correlation, the basic demand for a product must be investigated. The demand for a chemical firm s product may be thought of as being due to four elements the state of the general economy, competitive activity, the price and physical property relationships of substitute materials produced either by the chemical or other industries, and consumer income and tastes. The first three elements are generally of immediate concern to the typical Chemical Market Research Department. The importance of the last element, consumer income and tastes in our industry, is generally of secondary importance, because chemical firms are usually removed by several stages of production from the economy. 

During the competitive sixties, many of the products which are now beginning to come out of the laboratories will make today s products obsolete. While much chemical Market Research activity appears to be devoted to the analysis of potential markets for new products, little effort seems directed towards the study of the obsolescence of one s own products. Much is heard of the many wonderful products that will become part of the American way of life in the sixties, but little is heard of the products which will be relegated to the junk heap as a consequence and whose present profitability is contributing to their own obsolescence by underwriting research. This is a sort of success story suicide situation for the soaring sixties. 

In 1984, Viscusi and O Connor wrote an article for the American Economic Review about the effects of chemical hazard disclosure rules on workers propensity to qxiit. They titled it Adaptive Responses to Chemical Labeling Are Workers Bayesian Decision Makers , referring to Bayes Theorem in probability (see chapter 2). The real question that should be asked, however, is whether workers are Kantian decisionmakers do they accept or avoid risks on the basis of utility, as economists suppose, or do they value above all their autonomy as human beings in the tradition of Kant s categorical moral imperative This is an empirical question we will look for evidence of it in the historical and institutional record (chapter 4), and we will consider its implications for compensating differential theory and labor market analysis in general in chapter 5. 

Chemical Market Asscociates Inc. (2010) world terephthalate and polyester analysis. http //www.cmaiglobal.coin/WorldAnalysis/xylbook.aspx. Accessed 31 Mar 2010... 

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