Chlor-Alkali:
Rollercoaster Ride from Recession to Recovery

A Webcast from Harriman Chemsult Ltd.

Date: Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (4:00 PM GMT)
Price: $499.00

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ABOUT THIS WEBCAST
The chlor-alkali market continues to evolve as the market moves up from the global downturn.  This includes the market in North America, which is also seeing changing conditions.  This webcast from Harriman Chemsult will address the outlook for the important US and wider North American market.

The US is no longer a high cost producer after changes in energy costs, but continues to struggle as it emerges from recession.  Operating rates are low and end use markets have become increasingly fragmented, being subject to differing regional influences.  Changes in conditions have allowed producers to recapture some lost domestic business, but overall the caustic soda market in North America remains weak, with only limited recovery seen from the depressed market of recent times.

This new webcast by Harriman Chemsult will look at the changes seen in the North American market during and since the recession, and consider what further recovery may occur in 2010 and beyond.  This includes the future of supply and demand, whether the price rollercoaster will continue, and the wider outlook for the global market.

In-depth statistics revealing issues facing the industry will be disclosed, including:

• US chlor-alkali capacity and production, in context of the size of the global industry, for the past two decades
• North American year-over-year capacity change 1992-2008, by country
• US capacity by company from 1990 to 2015
• Recent US caustic soda import & export levels
• Conditions in 2009 including 2009 market demand and apparent production declines
• Prices, costs and margins, with estimated regional ECU costs & ranking, 2001-2009, with US estimated ECU costs detail
• Outlooks for US caustic soda balance and potential capacity change scenarios.

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About the presenters:

Mary Ellen Brady B.A.
Mary Ellen is Harriman Chemsult’s Manager of Chlor-Alkali Services America and has extensive experience in commodity journalism. She is responsible for Harriman Chemsult’s weekly Chlor-Alkali Americas service and contributes to the Chlor-Alkali Report on hydrochloric acid and potassium hydroxide. Prior to joining Harriman Chemsult in 1994, Mary Ellen had five years’ experience with British Sulphur Corporation covering the US agribusiness market for its weekly publication; she also spent five years with McGraw-Hill in Washington writing and reporting for a variety of weekly oil and chemical journals. She is a graduate of the University of Illinois with a degree in business journalism and a minor course of study in geology.

Andrew Brown, B.Sc., M.Sc.

Andrew is General Manager at Harriman Chemsult. He assists with production of the company’s single client work and multi-client reports, which have recently included European Hydrochloric Acid, Chlor-Alkali in China, PVC in China and World Chlorine and Caustic Soda. He is also responsible for various aspects of the Chlor-Alkali Report and Vinyl Chloride Report. Andrew had five years of experience in market research prior to joining Harriman Chemsult in 2001, including analysis of metals, minerals, and chemicals markets at Roskill Ltd., and research of platinum group metal markets for the Precious Metals Marketing division of Johnson Matthey Plc. He also worked in the shipping sector. He has degrees in Geology and Industrial Mineralogy from Luton and Leicester Universities.

Michael G Beal, B.Sc., M.Sc., DpBA

Mike has degrees in Chemistry from Manchester University and a Business Management diploma from Manchester Business School. Mike worked in market research, marketing and product management in the chemical industry at Laporte and Solvay-Interox in the 1980s; his latter position there was Product Manager, UK for Hydrogen Peroxide and inorganic Persalts. Mike first joined Harriman Chemsult in 1990 and has in the intervening years completed a large number of consultancy assignments across a range of markets. In the mid-1990s Mike also worked for two years at the Development Bank in Saudi Arabia (SIDF) where he carried out due diligence for (mainly petrochemical industry) projects applying to the bank for soft loans. Mike is Manager of Harriman Chemsult’s Single- and Multi-Client Studies.