Conventionally, North America, mainly USA, has been the largest producer as well as the consumer of petrochemicals. While North America will continue to be a force to reckon with in the petrochemical industry, it will lose its leadership position to the Middle Eastern region by the end of this decade in production, and to the Asian countries, particularly to China in consumption. Read more in Will North America lose its petrochemical supremacy to the Middle Eastern region by 2010?
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Syntactic foam is primarily used for a unique combination of a lightweight and fair compressive modulus and strength. From all the foams, the main advantage syntactic ones offer is their lightweight coupled with other interesting features such as insulating or acoustic properties and others. To know about the various properties and features as well as the various applications, read Glass bead offer properties to syntactic foam
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Global Polyurethane (PU) consumption is currently pegged at more than 10 million tons. PU waste constitutes about 5% of the municipal waste mainly derived from post consumer products. Technologies for recycling polyurethane wastes have been under development for more than a decade, but the recycling issue has recently become more urgent. Read more in Polyurethane waste utilization is gaining increasing priority
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Plastic products are finding increasing application in automotive as well as consumer electronics, particularly in products that appear on the exterior. Hence these applications demand good aesthetics throughout the life of the product. Plastics are notorious as they get scratched quite easily or easily damaged from mar. Scratch and mar resistance of polymer can be improved with coatings, mineral fillers and other additive technology. To know about the new additive technologies that have been commercialized and improved solutions that continue to be researched, read Plastic products increasingly demand scratch and mar resistance
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