This year's studies will update all the statistics including capacity, production, price, consumption throughout the Phenol product chain and information of the new projects in China. In addition, it will also factor in, discuss the major events of the last few months, and provide even greater analysis of the Phenol supply-demand balance, price trend in 2009-2012.
-Phenol supply: capacity by region, production and operating rates by plant from 2002-2009, and new projects to be launched from 2010-2012
-Phenol demand: Chinese consumption by region and end use, and forecast of each derivative industry
-International Phenol trade: both intra-regional and extra-regional trade flow, and trade situation outlook
-Key players: list of producers covering 100% of Chinese Phenol capacity, list of major domestic traders and list of major end-users covering 60% capacity of each derivative.
-Cost and margins: discerning changes of production costs, and comparing profits of upstream and downstream producers