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Reflections on the 2019 AFPM IPC meeting: NGLs, Olefins & Polyolefins
Report summary
On March 23-26, Wood Mackenzie’s chemical team attended the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) annual International Petrochemical Conference (IPC) in San Antonio, Texas. This conference is the world's largest gathering of executives and commercial managers for petrochemical industry. Wood Mackenzie’s team met with over 100 different chemical producing, consuming and support companies and exchanged our views on the outlook for the chemical industry.
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- Plastic sustainability
- Crude to Chemicals
- Shale-gas based ethylene investment wave continues
- Recent polyolefins sluggish demand
- Global olefin/polyolefin margin cyclical downturn
- Interpolymer competition
- Trade wars & potential for economic recession
- Ethylene monomer length
- Propylene market volatility
- Ethane infrastructure constraints
- Ethane exports
- Propane market length
- Key news announcements
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