IHS: rapid silicones growth expected, but overcapacity looms

摘要

China's silicone producers are adding capacity more quickly than the market can absorb, increasing the pressure to rationalize production, according to analysts at IHS Chemical. “That excess Chinese capacity threatens to destabilize the global silicones market,” says Aida Jebens, a specialty chemical analyst at IHS and principal author of a new report, IHS Chemical Economics Handbook: Silicones.