Entries from Asian Chemical Connections tagged with 'China real-estate prices'

PVC's Unsustainable China Growth

By John Richardson POLYMER markets continue to tell us that China's 2009-2010 economic stimulus programme delivered unsustainable demand growth. China's demand for polyvinyl chloride (PVC) surged from 10.9m tonnes in 2009 to 13.2m tonnes in 2010, according to Global...

Conventional Thinking Revisited

By John Richardson CONVENTIONAL thinking is that when you have a strong feedstock advantage, you should go ahead and build more petrochemicals capacity on the assumption that growth will eventually be sufficient to absorb volumes. Hence, several more green-field...

China Inflation Threat To Chemicals

  Sky-high living costs? Source of picture: www.shanghaiist.com   By John Richardson CHINA'S imports surged by 55.9 per cent last December, raising concerns among chemicals traders and producers that this points to increasing inflationary pressure and a possible interest-rate hike...