Industrial chemicals, production statistics

Spain. Monthly official statistics on population, health, mining and industrial production, foreign trade, transportation, finance, labor, and cost of living are available (68). Chemical production statistics are given for the materials listed in Table V. 

Economic Aspects. U.S. production statistics for the period 1980 to 1988 are given ia Table 4 (220). Exports amount to ca 20% of annual United States production, and imports amount to almost 10% of domestic production. The main foreign producers are Japan, South Africa, and Canada. South Korea, Brazil, and The People s RepubHc of China are minor producers. Japan s Nippon Soda Co., Ltd. is the world s third largest producer. Two other Japanese producers are Toyo Soda Co., Ltd., and Nankai Chemical Industry, Ltd. 

A monthly pubhcation of Rogers Publishing Company. This business-oriented publication gives production statistics. Annually it publishes a list of companies providing chemicals, services, and equipment to the plastics industry, and gives the production capacity by compound for each company. 

Interactions between soluble polymer and colloidal particles control the behavior of a large number of chemical products and processes and, hence, their technological viability. These dispersions have also attracted considerable scientific interest because of their complex thermodynamic and dynamical behavior—stimulated by the synthesis of novel polymers, improved optical and scattering techniques for characterization, and a predictive capability emerging from sophisticated statistical mechanical theories. Thus, the area is active both industrially and academically as evidenced by the patent literature and the frequency of technical conferences. 

When attention is confined to industrial chemicals, consumer-product research may be excluded. Thus, data relating to consumer surveys, population trends and shifts, gross national product, and psychological factors need be considered only in a few isolated cases. Specialists have developed the necessary techniques and have available an exhaustive statistical literature. Thus, industrial chemicals are rarely consumer goods antifreeze is an exception. Markets usually depend upon other industries which are often far removed from the ultimate consumer. In addition, special and peculiar problems are presented. The scattered, cryptic, and sketchy information, to be made useful, necessitates a lively ingenuity based upon a technical background. 

World pulp production statistics are summarised in Table 13.1. There are three main categories, mechanical, semichemical and chemical pulp. The elassification is based upon the process used for fibre separation. The major industrial operations are mechanical and chemical pulps, with most of the latter being manufaetured by the kraft process. 

The Bureau of Transport Economics and Statistics of the Interstate Commerce Commission is responsible for the freight statistics on commodities which can be used in various ways by the chemical industry. Since 1947, the bureau has had data, on a sample basis, of terminated traffic by commodity breakdowns. Issued quarterly, the Group V statistics titled Manufactures and Miscellaneous include numerous chemicals and chemical products. Number of carloads and tons are reported for Class I steam railways in the United States. Although no longer published, the state statistics by origination, destination, and commodity were useful data. Collection and publication of these figures were discontinued in January 1952. 

The Chemical Division could not have performed its authorized function of stimulating defense production had it not been for industry and commodity statistics. Personnel had to know current production, consumption, and stocks of chemicals and related products. It had to be informed of existing demand and possible future demand for hundreds of inorganic and organic chemicals. Because of its functions concerned with processing applications for rapid tax amortization and loan assistance, the division also kept informed of planned chemical expansions. 

A statistical yearbook of the Furnish industries 16) includes general statistics for the various branches of industry (value of output, number of workers, wages, and motive power), and detailed tables of output and raw material consumption by the different industries. Chemicals for which output figures are given include paints, varnishes, and lacquers, superphosphate, turpentine, explosives, chlorine, caustic soda (solid and solution), hydrochloric acid,. phosphates, trichlorethylene, chlorophenolates, calcium hypochlorite, carbon tetrachloride, calcium carbide, potassium chlorate, carbon dioxide (hquid), sulfuric acid, water glaiss, metasilicate, plastics and synthetic resins, dichloro-ethane, and chloral. For lacquers and varnishes, and plastics and synthetic resins, data are given for individual products. 

Germany. The Statistisches Bundesamt, the federal West German statistical office, publishes statistics in Die Industrie der Bundesrepublik 30), Part I gives monthly statistics of employment and unemployment, hours and wages, and fuel and electricity supplies and consumption by individual industries. Part II gives monthly production statistics for mining, fuel and power, and the main industries. Chemicals included are sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid, chlorine, caustic soda, synthetic ammonia. 

The Italian chemical journal, Rassegna Chemica 50), contains articles on technical and industrial developments and on chemical markets in Italy. Monthly statistics on Italian chemical production (quoted from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce) include the following synthetic ammonia, nitric acid, sulfuric acid, sodium carbonate, caustic soda, alumina, trichlorethylene, calcium carbide, carbon disulfide, explosives, superphosphates, ammonium sulfate, calcium cyanamide, calcium nitrate, ammonium nitrate, copper sulfate, dyestuffs, ethyl alcohol, methanol, tanning extracts, tartaric acid, citric acid, wood pulp and cellulose, and sodium nitrate. 

To determine the industries likely to use a chemical, the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, the Organic Chemical Producers Data Base, and the National Occupational Hazard Survey may be of help. This last source represents the only comprehensive industrial exposure survey. Under its mandate in the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, NIOSH conducted a two and a half year statistically structured survey of United States workplaces to determine the levels of chemicals, trademark products, or physical agents to which workers were being exposed by job title. The Inventory of Chemicals in Commerce recently assembled by EPA s Office of Toxic Substances also contains data on chemical production by site as well as a coded production volume. EPA can also use Section 8 of TSCA to collect chemical use data, but has not done so to date. 

The wholesale price index which was constructed in section II for the electrochemical industry was used to express the 1958 and 1963 value added by the electrochemical industry in constant (1957-1959) dollars. In the case of all U.S. manufacturing, the Bureau of Labor Statistics all commodities except farm products and foods wholesale price index was used. The industrial chemical industry s reported dollar value added was reduced to constant dollars by using the Bureau of Labor Statistics industrial chemical wholesale price index. The GNP for 1958 and 1963 in constant dollars was obtained from published data. Value added was used as the measure of size because data on total shipments for all U.S. manufacturing were not available in 1958. 

Phosgene is high ranking among industrially produced chemicals. Although its production output is almost exclusively captive and therefore only approximate production statistics are available, a yearly worldwide production of about 5-6 MT can be roughly estimated [1]. 

Abstract of Statistics which cover a wide range of products in the chemical and allied industries. Details of British imports and exports can be found in the monthly Trade and Navigation Accounts and the Annual Statement of Trade of the United Kingdom while the weekly Board of Trade Journal includes an index to industrial production, wholesale prices, and figures relating to sales of industrial chemical materials. 

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