Isocyanates Market Research ..

Russia features high demand for isocyanates: over the recent 5 years the demand has grown by 120K mt/y, while production output hardly reaches 80K mt/y, Merchant Research & Consulting Ltd. consulting agency says.

Feedstock supply is tight. In 2005, the share of the imports of polyesters was 51.3%, while the isocyanates import share topped 100%.

In 2006, the global annual demand for isocyanates grew by 7% driven mainly by the agitation on the European construction market and by additional demand demonstrated by Asia, Middle East, and Africa. The situation was also brightened by the new regulatory standards in construction.

Currently, global isocyanates market grows by 5% a year, stimulated primarily by the polyurethane output expansion.

Isocyanates are the raw materials from which all polyurethane products are made. Isocyanates are widely used in the manufacture of flexible/rigid foams, fibres, coatings (paints and varnishes), and elastomers. Diisocyanates are increasingly used in the automobile industry, auto body repair and building insulation materials.

The most industrially significant diisocyantes are toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and methylene bisphenyl isocyanate (MDI).

The average annual demand for TDI shows the following growth rates by 2009: 7.5% in North-East Asia, 7.0% in South-East Asia, 5.1% in North America and 2.9% in Europe.

The manufacture of flexible and rigid polyurethane foams represents the major diisocyanate-consuming sector. Thus, about 90% of produced TDI is used for the manufacture of flexible polyurethane foams, while 85% of produced MDI is consumed to make rigid polyurethane foams.

Our "Isocyanates Market Research" Report also features the following information:

• Global isocyanate market situation;
• Isocyanate production technologies;
• Main consumers of isocyanates in Russia and other CIS countries;
• etc.

The objective of this review is to analyse the global and CIS isocyanates markets. We describe isocyanate production intricacies, arising ecological issues, current technological advances, patenting. The review provides the information on product prices, manufacturers, suppliers, etc.

Contents

CONTENTS

1. ISOCYANATES. PRODUCTION OF ISOCYANATES. THEIR APPLICATION AREAS AND CONSUMPTION STRUCTURE
1.1. MDI
1.2. TDI

2. ANALYSIS OF GLOBAL ISOCYANATES MARKET BEHAVIOR
2.1. Global isocyanates production capacities
2.2. MDI and related feedstock market
US market
The market for aniline used as feedstock for MDI production
2.3. TDI market state
2.4. Prices for isocyanates
Europe
Asia
USA
2.5. Isocyanate producers and suppliers
Global isocyanate producers and suppliers
Isocyanate traders worldwide

3. ANALYSIS OF ISOCYANATE PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES
3.1. Brief analysis of technological innovations
3.2. Patenting of isocyanate-related technologies
3.3. Environmental issues as regards to isocyanate production
3.4. Engineering companies
3.5. Market news

4. ISOCYANATE PRODUCTION IN THE CIS COUNTRIES
4.1. Isocyanate production in Russia
Isocyanate production in the Russian Federation
PU market as isocyanate application area
Foreign trade with isocyanates in Russia
Isocyanate producers in Russia
Isocyanate traders, suppliers and prices
Isocyanate consumers in Russia
4.2. Isocyanates market in Ukraine
Isocyanate production in Ukraine
Isocyanate consumers in Ukraine

5. MARKETS OF FEEDSTOCK FOR ISOCYANATE PRODUCTION IN CIS
5.1. Methanol market
Russia
Ukraine
Belarus
5.2. Aniline market
Russia
5.3. Benzene market
Russia
Belarus
Ukraine
5.4. Formaldehyde market
Russia
Ukraine
5.5. Toluene market
Russia
Ukraine

6. TECHNICAL CONDITIONS AND SPECIFICATIONS OF ISOCYANATES AND RELEVANT SYSTEMS APPLIED IN THE PRODUCTION OF SOFT/RIGID POLYURETHANE FOAMS

SOURCES

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