Wood Mackenzie appoints new Chief Financial Officer

• 27 3月 2023

Wood Mackenzie, a portfolio company of Veritas Capital, has appointed Simon Crowe to its global executive leadership team as Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective 27th March.

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Spandex entering the big time as sales to hit 1 million tonnes by 2020

• 25 6月 2019

As spandex closes in on sales of 1 million tonnes, industry structures will change to meet competition from China and the challenge of closed-loop recycling, according to recent Wood Mackenzie Chemicals research.

Was 2019 the year of recycled PET?

• 10 12月 2019

2019 has been a year of successes within the recycled PET (RPET) industry.

Global automotive industry to drive industrial textile demand

• 23 9月 2019

Airbags are a core and growing part of the industrial textile portfolio. Current global airbag yarn demand sits at 164 ktpa and is expected to reach 237 ktpa by 2025, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie.

MEG and polyethylene spot prices jump after Saudi drone attack

• 17 9月 2019

Spot prices of monoethylene glycol (MEG) and polyethylene (PE) have spiked in Asia, following news of the drone attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia over the weekend. These two commodities are the two main chemical exports of the region.

Horizons Live: Plastic surgery

• 06 12月 2021

Andrew Brown, Guy Bailey and Steve Jenkins answer questions and reignite discussion on creating more sustainable plastics value chain and getting the chemicals industry fit for the future.

Europe’s flexible packaging market will be worth over €16 billion by 2023

• 23 7月 2019

Europe's flexible packaging market is predicted to achieve a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2% over the next five years to reach over €16 billion in 2023.

SP Chemicals starts up China’s first gas-based ethylene plant

• 20 8月 2019

SP Olefins, a subsidiary of SP Chemicals, successfully started up its 650 ktpa steam cracker and was able to produce on-spec olefins.

Packaging industry’s sustainability drive good news for BOPP film

• 23 10月 2019

The global Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) film market has seen demand grow by just under 5% per annum over the last five years. The main driver of growth has been the demand for flexible packaging, particularly in China and South East Asia, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest ‘BOPP Film Global Supply Demand Report’.

Global BOPET film market to grow almost 6% p.a. by 2023

• 15 5月 2019

The global BOPET film market has seen demand grow by 6.7% p.a. over the last 5 years and now sits at just over 5 million tonnes, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie Chemicals.

INEOS announces $2bn chemicals investment in Saudi Arabia

• 03 6月 2019

INEOS is to spend $2bn building 3 chemicals plants in Saudi Arabia. Commenting on the news, Wood Mackenzie Chemicals Principal Analyst, Patrick Kirby, said:

2020 could mark start of downcycle for China’s petrochemical industry

• 15 1月 2020

In a recently published report, Wood Mackenzie predicts the start of a downcycle in China’s petrochemical industry. A supply overhang has already hit the country’s paraxylene (PX) market, with olefins and polyolefins markets almost certain to face the same.

China to dent global polyester growth in 2020

• 09 1月 2020

Chinese polyester market growth is expected to sit at just below 3% in 2020, a marked decline from the strong growth seen between 2018 and 2019. This dip in performance is mainly due to slashed growth for bottle-grade PET, according to Wood Mackenzie.

Oils & chemicals: 5 things to watch for in 2024

• 11 1月 2024

Calmer waters are expected for the oils, refining and chemicals industries in 2024 – but that doesn’t mean it’s plain sailing. What are the top trends to track for the year ahead?

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Plastic demand: sectoral overview

• 15 8月 2024

Plastics have enjoyed popularity across multiple sectors for decades, but times are changing. As environmental and economic pressures mount, will demand hold up?

How will the oil price crash affect the ethylene cost curve?

• 17 3月 2020

Changing oil price dynamics add an extra dimension to ethylene’s overcapacity outlook.

Wood Mackenzie at the 9th OPEC International Seminar 2025

• 09 7月 2025

Meet our Oils & Chemicals experts at the 9th OPEC International Seminar 2025, taking place in Vienna, Austria from 9-10th July 2025.

Can China’s CTO and MTO industries survive the threat of massive steam cracker investment?

• 06 9月 2019

In 2019, the total ethylene capacity from CTO/MTO units reached 5.21 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa), accounting for 21% of China’s total ethylene capacity. However, CTO and MTO development has slowed due to high methanol prices and environmental controls, as well as the threat from a new wave of steam cracker investment in China.

Webinar | Commodities in distress: what about Chemicals?

• 25 6月 2020

Key segments of the chemicals and polymers industries were already facing challenges as 2020 began due to surplus capacity and diminishing demand in relation to increased sustainability efforts. Those pressures have since intensified due to effects of coronavirus on the global economy.

Eye on the tiger: how higher Indian economic growth could impact global energy markets

• 20 3月 2025

In this edition of Horizons, we consider the implications of higher Indian growth for global energy markets.

Webinar | Oil market and refining resilience: is the best yet to come?

• 21 5月 2024

Join Wood Mackenzie on 21st May 2024, for a discussion on the oil market outlook and refining capacity and margins.

Bio-liquid gold: how biofuel circularity could unlock the energy transition

• 18 8月 2022

There’s little doubt that liquid biofuels should play a crucial role in the energy transition. Bio-based diesel and aviation fuels from plant-based feedstock could emit 80% less carbon than the crude oil-based products that dominate today’s global market. The question is how to make it happen.

Back to the future: the Horizons year in review

• 09 12月 2021

We touched on a number of issues this year with our new thought-leadership series. Post-COP26, it's time to review the articles and put them in recent context.

Webinar | Refinery/petrochemical integration is transforming the downstream landscape (APAC/MEA)

• 23 3月 2021

Join us on Tuesday 23rd, to better understand how to benchmark the significance of petrochemical integration on the refining industry and how disruptive such integrated sites are to the petrochemical sector.

Webinar | Plastic Waste Makers Index - revealing the source of the single-use plastics crisis

• 03 6月 2021

Join us for a conversation with Nakul Saran (COO) and Dominic Charles (Director of Finance and Transparency) from the No Plastic Waste project set up by the Minderoo Foundation, who recently released their new Plastic Waste Makers Index. In this session Minderoo will walk through their report and its key findings and what they would like to see happen next. They will be joined by Wood Mackenzie’s experts who will set out the challenges facing the industry, and what these might mean for the future of the plastics value chain, before opening the floor to questions from the audience.

Hitting the brakes: how the energy transition could decelerate in the US

• 16 5月 2024

The US is facing a pivotal moment for its energy future. Depending on the results of the election, investment in the energy and natural resources sectors could play out in very different ways.

Horizons Live: Waste to wealth

• 31 7月 2024

The circular economy is a critical strategy for delivering a lower-emission, more sustainable economy. This month's Horizons Live examines how different industries can work towards unlocking circular value chains and initiate change.

Webinar | Chemicals integration: the winners and losers

• 02 9月 2020

The chemical industry has established “cost of production” as the measure of asset competitiveness. The by-product credits from refinery integration challenge this simplified view, making it vital to understand the holistic value generation capability of an integrated site. View our recent webinar on demand - Chemicals integration: the winners and losers