Global Specialty Chemicals

Introduction

Global Specialty Chemicals industry profile provides top-line qualitative and quantitative summary information including: market size (value 2006-10, and forecast to 2015). The profile also contains descriptions of the leading players including key financial metrics and analysis of competitive pressures within the market. Essential resource for top-line data and analysis covering the Global specialty chemicals market. Includes market size and segmentation data, textual and graphical analysis of market growth trends, leading companies and macroeconomic information.

Highlights

• The specialty chemical market covers the revenues generated from the sales of high value-added chemicals used in the manufacture of a wide variety of products, including but not limited to fine chemicals, additives, advanced polymers, adhesives, sealants and specialty paints, pigments and coatings.
• The global specialty chemicals market had total revenue of $706.3 billion in 2010, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.3% for the period spanning 2006-2010.
• Fine chemicals sales proved the most lucrative for the global specialty chemicals market in 2010, with total revenues of $204.2 billion, equivalent to 28.9% of the market's overall value.
• The performance of the market is forecast to accelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 5.4% for the five-year period 2010-2015, which is expected to drive the market to a value of $918.6 billion by the end of 2015.

Features

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Leading company profiles reveal details of key specialty chemicals market players’ global operations and financial performance

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Key Questions Answered

What was the size of the Global specialty chemicals market by value in 2010?

What will be the size of the Global specialty chemicals market in 2015?

What factors are affecting the strength of competition in the Global specialty chemicals market?

How has the market performed over the last five years?

What are the main segments that make up Global's specialty chemicals market?

Contents

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

MARKET OVERVIEW

Market definition
Research highlights
Market analysis

MARKET VALUE

MARKET SEGMENTATION I

MARKET SEGMENTATION II

FIVE FORCES ANALYSIS

Summary
Buyer power
Supplier power
New entrants
Substitutes
Rivalry

LEADING COMPANIES

BASF SE

The Dow Chemical Company
INEOS Group Limited
LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A.

MARKET FORECASTS

Market value forecast

APPENDIX

Methodology
Industry associations
Related Datamonitor research
Disclaimer

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LIST OF TABLES

Table 1: Global specialty chemicals market value: $ million, 2006–10
Table 2: Global specialty chemicals market segmentation I:% share, by value, 2010
Table 3: Global specialty chemicals market segmentation II: % share, by value, 2010
Table 4: BASF SE: key facts
Table 5: BASF SE: key financials ($)
Table 6: BASF SE: key financials (€)
Table 7: BASF SE: key financial ratios
Table 8: The Dow Chemical Company: key facts
Table 9: The Dow Chemical Company: key financials ($)
Table 10: The Dow Chemical Company: key financial ratios
Table 11: INEOS Group Limited: key facts
Table 12: LyondellBasell Industries AF S.C.A.: key facts
Table 13: Global specialty chemicals market value forecast: $ million, 2010–15

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1: Global specialty chemicals market value: $ million, 2006–10
Figure 2: Global specialty chemicals market segmentation I:% share, by value, 2010
Figure 3: Global specialty chemicals market segmentation II: % share, by value, 2010
Figure 4: Forces driving competition in the global specialty chemicals market, 2010
Figure 5: Drivers of buyer power in the global specialty chemicals market, 2010
Figure 6: Drivers of supplier power in the global specialty chemicals market, 2010
Figure 7: Factors influencing the likelihood of new entrants in the global specialty chemicals market, 2010
Figure 8: Factors influencing the threat of substitutes in the global specialty chemicals market, 2010
Figure 9: Drivers of degree of rivalry in the global specialty chemicals market, 2010
Figure 10: BASF SE: revenues & profitability
Figure 11: BASF SE: assets & liabilities
Figure 12: The Dow Chemical Company: revenues & profitability
Figure 13: The Dow Chemical Company: assets & liabilities
Figure 14: Global specialty chemicals market value forecast: $ million, 2010–15
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