Global Butadiene Market to 2020 - Synthetic Rubber Demand Declines due to Slowdown in the Automobile Sector in Europe and Asia-Pacific

“Butadiene Global Market to 2020 – Synthetic Rubber Demand Declines due to Slowdown in the Automobile Sector in Europe and Asia-Pacific” is an in-depth report, which is focused on the demand side of the global butadiene industry. The report provides the reader with detailed analysis and forecasts of the major economic and market trends affecting global butadiene demand in the major regions of the world. It also provides analysis and description of the major drivers and restraints affecting butadiene demand in each region.

European production of Butadiene, the chemical required to create the synthetic rubber used for tyres, will soon overtake demand for the first time since 2000 as a result of the continent’s shrinking car industry, says industry analysts GBI Research in their latest report.

The firm’s new study Butadiene Global Market to 2020 states that Europe’s demand for butadiene last year was 2,459,778 tons while production stood at 2,246,137 tons. However, this disparity is expected to invert in 2015 when production will outpace demand by 162,953 tons.

According to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association, European car sales have shrunk for nine consecutive months in 2012, and truck demand is down for the last five months. Furthermore, it forecasts that passenger car sales in the EU will shrink 7% this year to 12.2 million vehicles, 21% below the 2007 peak, with the weakest demand since 1995.

Such deflated demand for new cars has correspondingly damaged the need for butadiene in Europe, but rather than scale back the chemical’s manufacture, companies are moving to increase production with an eye on the export market.

Major butadiene production capacity additions include LyondellBasell’s expansion of its extraction unit in Wesseling, Germany, and Versalis’s plans to build a new 70,000 ton/year unit at its Dunkirk site in France.

Last year’s global demand for butadiene stood at 10,259,583 tons and GBI Research expects this figure to reach 14,543,120 tons by the end of 2020, representing a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 3.9%.

Asia-Pacific is expected to continue as the world’s most butadiene-hungry region, with demand predicted to reach 8,410,981 tons before the end of decade.

Butadiene Global Market to 2020 - Synthetic Rubber Demand Declines due to Slowdown in the Automobile Sector in Europe and Asia-Pacific report provides the reader with detailed analysis and forecasts of the major economic and market trends affecting global butadiene demand in the major regions of the world.

Scope

·         Drivers, restraints and challenges affecting the growth of the butadiene market for all major global regions: Asia-Pacific, Europe, North America, the Middle East and Africa, and South and Central America.

·         Demand and production volume forecasts for the butadiene markets of all major countries: the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, Russia, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Poland, China, Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina.

·         Demand volume forecasts for the major end-user applications, highlighting trends and volume share analysis for each of these applications in all major countries.

·         Butadiene Pricing forecasts and analyses of the major countries and regions.

·         Butadiene Capacity share analyses of the key producers in all the major countries.

·         The butadiene import and export trends in all major countries.

·         The butadiene installed capacity during the 2010 to 2016 period for all major regions.

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Report Details:

Published: Nov 2012

No. of pages:269

Price: Single User License: US $3500