Polymer Capacity of The Oil and Petrochemical Industry

The changing supply pattern has affected the market in principle pipe polymers, reducing the number of European and US based providers to European pipe makers. At the same time however there are newer entrants to the market in the form of Middle East and Asian companies. 

The effect of recent merging of the Elenac, Targor and Montell interests will create a single company capacity for 1.95 m tonnes of PE and 3.225 m tonnes of PP. 

The significance of price changes of commodity polymers is that there is an immediate knock-on effect to the costs of large-scale pipe production. Raw material costs are a major factor in the overall cost of extruded pipe. Therefore the selling prices of pipes can 

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