Chemicals Market data

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. 

Market Data. The largest U.S. manufacturer of molecular sieves for adsorbent and desiccant use is UOP, which has a production capacity of 18—20 million kg/year. W.R. Grace and Zeochem have about 7 and 2 million kg/year capacity, respectively (55). W.R. Grace is the largest producer of siUca gel desiccants. Activated alumina for use as adsorbent and desiccant is produced by LaRoche Chemicals (formerly Kaiser) and by Aluminum Company of America. About one-third of the U.S. supply of activated alumina adsorbent and desiccant is imported by Rhc ne-Poulenc. 

Chemical process data inherently contain some degree of error, and this error may be random or systematic. Thus, the application of data reconciliation techniques allows optimal adjustment of measurement values to satisfy material and energy constraints. It also makes possible the estimation of unmeasured variables. It should be emphasized that, in today s highly competitive world market, resolving even small errors can lead to significant improvements in plant performance and economy. This book attempts to provide a comprehensive statement, analysis, and discussion of the main issues that emerge in the treatment and reconciliation of plant data. 

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. 

Additional production data are available from the Chemical Marketing Reporter (CMR 1996), and import/export data for phenol are available on the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB 1996). Additional data are not needed at this time. 

Data from Chemical Marketing Reporter, Schnell Publishing, New York, 13 April (1990), cited in reference la depending on grade. 

Production, Import/Export, Use, Release, and Disposal. Data on the production and uses of 1,4-dichlorobenzene in the United States are available (C EN 1995 Chemical Marketing Reporter 1990 HSDB 1998 IRPTC 1985 SRI 1996 TRI96 1998). Production has increased over the past decade and is projected to increase for the next several years due to an increased demand for 1,4-dichlorobenzene to be used in the production of polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) resins. Incineration is the recommended disposal method for 1,4-dichlorobenzene (HSDB 1998 IRPTC 1985). Disposal of this compound is controlled by... 

Manufacturers, importers, or downstream users usually classify and label chemicals under their own responsibility. This approach is called self-classification. It means that companies evaluate all available information concerning the intrinsic properties of a particular substance or mixture by applying to it the relevant classification criteria. However, since the available information or interpretation of data may differ from one company to another, each self-classification may result in a different classification and labeling for the same substance. From a regulatory point of view, classification and labeling discrepancies are problematic because they impede a consistent hazard communication on the chemicals market and may put at risk the appropriate protection of humans and the environment. 

Kane JR. Nutritional supplements are under the weather. (Sales decline) (Statistical data included). Chemical Market Reporter Pub 6/2001. http //www. findarticles.eom/cf dls/m0FVP/26 260/76495868/pl/article.jhtml (accessed 2-01-2004). 

Technology Information Group. Chemical Market Reporter, Chemical Profiles http //www. the-innovation-group.com/chemprofile.htm Production statistics and data on producers... 

Some of that experience has been enacted into laws and regulations. For example, today the law requires that many chemicals be proven safe for their proposed use before they can be marketed. Thus the research organization may be asked to develop information on acute, subacute, and chronic effects of human exposure to a new or old chemical product. Data also frequently are called for on the effects of exposure on wildlife and the environment and on the routes and metabolism of a chemical in the environment. 

All of the previous data show that an individual s diet will dictate the number of different chemicals he or she will consume on a daily basis. This chapter gives examples of how individual food choices will influence a person s chemical exposure. With these examples, the consumer can utilize this guide to determine the chemical mixtures that may occur in a specific meal or daily diet. For example, using the chemical exposure data in Exhibits 1 through 12, examples of how specific food choices can influence a person s exposure to synthetic chemicals are shown for low-fat and high-fat diets, vegetarian diets, children s lunches, and comfort foods. Specific synthetic chemicals are listed for a food product, if a chemical occurred in at least 7 out of 12 Market Baskets (i.e., approximately 60 percent of the time). Otherwise, the chemical was not listed even if was detected in that food. 

In health care the existence of a number of different sources of high quality and detailed quantitative market data for such analyses confers an advantage over many other industrial markets. This is not so in many other business markets, such as chemicals or other commodities, and is more akin to consumer market data. Hence it is possible to generate analysis of data at a high level of granularity at a quantitative level rather than having to rely on qualitative research based only on small samples of the market for the estimation of segments or, of product use. 

It is clear that an accurate exposure prediction at the landscape level requires models calibrated and validated for the landscape unit of interest and that the input parameters used have a high precision and accuracy for the area of interest (see Section 1.7 in Chapter 1). However, in a prospective risk assessment for new chemicals not yet placed on the market, chemical monitoring data are not yet available, and exposure predictions at the landscape level may be characterized by a relatively high uncertainty because the scale and intensity of the use of these chemicals are not... 

Commercial costs for bulk quantities. Data from Dr. P. Savle, Schering-Plough, IQ 07, and Chemical Market Reporter. 

Plant derived pharmaceuticals are estimated to have an annual value of 9 billion in the U.S. alone (4). Flavors and fragrances have a current worldwide market of about 1.5 billion. Market data for insecticides and other fine chemicals such as pigments are not readily available. The first example, and the only current commercial process based on plant cell culture, is for the production of shikonin in Japan. This compound is both used in medicine and as a pigment (5-7. ... 

REACH seeks to address universal challenges on the lack of risk data and the poor quality of many safety data sheets (SDS). With its dominant role in the global chemicals market, the EU could be ideally situated for propagating change through international supply chains. Even the prospect of REACH has already catalysed change within the chemical industry. 

Authors analysis of market data reported by European Chemical News. 

For many chemicals reporting agencies such as ICIS-LORS and Platts produce daily price and volume bulletins for subscribers. ICIS-LORS data is reported for a wide range of chemicals regularly in ICIS Chemical Business (formerly European Chemical News). Other groups such as Chemical Market Associates regularly report on global trends and prices which are often reviewed in the Oil Gas Journal ... 

Chemical Market Associates Inc. (CMAI) Maintains a large archive of historic data and future price forecasts for 70 commodity chemicals, including multiple grades, U.S., N.W Europe, Middle East, N.E., and S.E. Asia. Spot and contract prices are given for some compounds, and in some cases margins are also estimated by formula. 

Compiled from data of Kirk-Othmer [2], Matasa and Tonca [14], and issues of Chemical and Engineering News, the Chemical Marketing Reporter, and Statistical Abstract of the United States. 

Data compiled from Chem. Eng. News [1, 3, 4], Kirschner [2], and Chemical Market Reporter [5, 6],... 

Over one hundred trade and allied associations have been discussed as examples of sources of market information. The specific data mentioned in each case have been limited to that which was, more or less, especially of interest in chemical market research. Table I lists certain of the associations mentioned above, showing in greater detail data that are available. 

Then too, the chemical market researcher was coming into his own at the war s end— and several magazines in the chemical process industries responded to the requests for more detailed statistics flowing into their offices. They published articles that gave data on the commercial interrelationship of chemicals and their ultimate markets. 

Chemical Metallurgical Engineering has done its part in developing data on chemical uses. Their pioneer work, in 1937 and 1939, was the result of Henry Batter s following, for many years, the status of chemicals and their markets. Data were published in Chemical Facts Figures issues, which were followed by an annual statistical review in Chemical Engineering, published every February. 

The author, in preparing a chapter for the Chemical Business Handbook, edited by John H. Perry (4), examined most of the data published since 1948. It became apparent that data comes from a wide variety of sources. Using F. D. SnelFs Chemical Market Reportj which is published monthly (f), it was easy to check the material which... 

Of all the sources studies, the most valuable single source of consumption data was Chemical Market Report. It gives abstracts of articles appearing in other publications in sufficient detail to allow the reader to decide whether or not the original article is worth further investigation. 

In addition, Industrial Chemicals," by Faith, Keys, and Clark, 2) contains data on consumption of chemicals by markets for 1948. One-hundred-four chemicals are included. Another valuable source of chemical consumption data is Chemical Economics Handbook," edited by Raymond Ewell ( ). 

Of course, the primary use of chemical end-use data is in chemical market research. The chemical market researcher has to have a technical background to correlate data that has appeared in the literature or information that he has collected outside of the literature. To the technically trained man, the data on production of carbon bisulfide can be related to the consumption of sulfur in a consuming industry. Similarly, the production rates of viscose rayon can be directly related to the use of carbon bisulfide in the rayon industry. 

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