August 1999
thoroughly investigates new polyolefin and alpha-olefin technologies and explains their potential impact on the market for comonomers. It provides a complete listing of polyolefin producers detailing their capacities, processes, and products, and quantifies current and estimated future comonomer consumption by chain length. Comonomer demand is summarized by chain length and by region for 1995, 1996, 2000, and 2005. The study also includes an analysis of current and potential alpha-olefin producers and forecasts comonomer supply by chain length and by region.