Global chemical industry development

Chemistry - or chemicals - lies at the heart of everything fibers for new textiles, catalysts for a clean environment, colors that gleam in the sun, polymer electrolyte diaphragms for fuel cells, chemicals for chip production, or fertilizers that help plants grow, ensuring global food production. The chemical industry develops the intermediate products that other industries use, and often develops new processes and products itself, or in conjunction with customers. 

ICCA, On the Road to Sustainability - A Contribution from the Global Chemical Industry to the World Summit on Sustainable Development, ICCA, August 2002. 

The global chemical industry will develop and share information and practices across companies consistent with competition law and other legal requirements. 

The global chemical industry will extend existing local, national and global dialogue processes to enable the industry to address the concerns and expectations of external stakeholders to aid in the continuing development of Responsible Care. 

In 2008 the global chemical industry was a 3.7 trillion enterprise. In the past, the United States and Western Europe were the top exporters of chemicals to developing countries, but now they lag behind Asia-Pacific countries, primarily because of production in China and India. Surpassing U.S. and European output, the Asia region experienced an increase of 9.1 percent in its share of world chemical sales (Figure 1-1) from 1997 (17.0 percent) to 2007 (30.4 percent), a stark contrast with the decUne in both Europe (from 32.2 percent to 29.5 percent) and the countries adhering to the North American Free Trade Agreement (from 28.0 percent to 22.2 percent). ... 

Duan, J. 2009. Global biodiesel industry development [J]. Daily Chemicals Science 32(1) 7-11. 

Developed frameworks are applied to the specific industry problem to monthly plan a global chemical commodity value chain by volumes and values. Sub-objectives are to elaborate characteristics and planning requirements for a global commodity value chain in the chemical industry and to develop, implement and evaluate the respective model. Research question 2 is directed to a real industry case study demonstrating the real existence of formulated requirements, showing the applicability of the developed model in reality and evaluating the model using industry data. 

The value chain management framework is used as conceptual basis for developing a global value chain planning model for the specific scope of a global commodity value chain in the chemical industry. 

The chemical industry is the application field for the study and the development of a global value chain planning model. General characteristics of the chemical industry as application field are described in this chapter. Particularities of chemical commodities are described in more detail being relevant for the considered case. 

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