July 2003

Trends and Resources

HP Impact: Polymerization catalyst demand in US forecast to expand 5.7%/yr

The US market for polymerization catalysts is forecast to expand 5.7%/yr through 2007, reaching $1.1 billion. So says a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based indus..

Weirauch, Wendy, Hydrocarbon Processing Staff

The US market for polymerization catalysts is forecast to expand 5.7%/yr through 2007, reaching $1.1 billion. So says a new study from The Freedonia Group, Inc., a Cleveland-based industrial market research firm. Polymerization catalysts (including reaction initiators) are organometallic, metallic and chemical materials used to initiate and control the polymerization process for various plastics, elastomers and specialty materials (such as plastomers). Dominated for decades by traditional Ziegler-Natta catalysts, the polymerization catalyst industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation due to the commercialization

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