Bruce F. Greek

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Polyethylene, Other Derivatives Feel Worsening Ethylene Crunch: Tight ethylene supply coupled with increasing demand for derivatives of monomer are pushing plant capacity use rates above optimum levels

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Lime, sulfur, phosphorus recover and regroup: Big-volume mineral-based inorganics regain lost ground as pollution control laws make and break markets and production processes

Bruce F. Greek, 1977 .

Detergent Components Become Increasingly Diverse, Complex

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Chemical Capacity Use Finally Rebounds: U.S. chemical plants are running 64% of capacity, polymer plants, 71%, as a seemingly endless recession has at last given way to a fairly vigorous upturn

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1983 .

Industry/Business: Ammonia outlook brightens considerablySpring demand surge for ammonia cuts down on inventories and lifts prices, augurs well for other fertilizers

Bruce F. Greek, 1976 .

Luster dims for chlor-alkali producers: Demand for caustic soda, in short supply for some time, is now softening; soda ash market is losing strength; chlorine is worst of all

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1982 .

Fertilizer Chemicals Face Another Bleak Year: Demand for ammonia, urea, wet-process phosphoric acid, potash will slip as fertilizer consumption is forecast to be less than 42 million tons

Bruce F. Greek, 1987 .

Industry/Business: Petrochemicals wait for end of the pauseWaiting is causing anxiety as new capacity starts up and prices drop, and downstream plastics and fibers still fail to signal an upturn

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1976 .

Chemical capacity use up another notch: Despite signs of weakness in a number of products, overall capacity use at U.S. chemical plants rose to 81 % by the end of last year

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1980 .

Good growth in store for polyolefins

Bruce F. Greek, 1975 .

Capacity grows for olefins worldwide

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Slow recovery begins for petrochemicals: Following thorough drubbing in 1980, basic olefins and aromatics output is picking up, but capacity use and profits will stay low in 1981

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1980 .

Plastics Expand Into New Markets

Bruce F. Greek, 1985 .

Fiber Intermediates Plod Through Slow Recovery: Despite much improved year in fibers demand, major intermediates—DMT/PTA, ethylene oxide, cyclohexane still are struggling

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, B. Greek, 1983 .

Petrochemical profit decline may be easing

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Demand for Acrylic Fiber Continues To Drift Downward: Du Font's decision to exit market will cut U.S. capacity for fiber by one third; other acrylic producers are moving to fill anticipated void

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Propylene price outlook hinges on polymer use

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Chlor-Alkalies Begin Long Climb Up From Recession: Badly battered in 1982, chlorine, caustic soda, and soda ash face slow growth; for chlorine/caustic, more plant shutdowns are likely

Bruce F. Greek, 1983 .

Industry / Business: Polyethylene heads for record in 1976Low- and high-density polyethylene now have recovered from recession, are ready for new growth, especially in new uses

Bruce F. Greek, 1975 .

Major Synthetic Fibers Well Into Long-Awaited Recovery: Markets could even get tight for some grades, as polyester, nylon, and acrylic move briskly out of the recession; imports still may be problem

Bruce F. Greek, 1983 .

Modest Rise in Consumption Forecast for Fertilizers: Following last crop year's slump in demand growth, U.S. fertilizer use likely will increase 2 to 4% to more than 20 million tons

Bruce F. Greek, 1989 .

Squeeze on soda ash capacity pushes expansion

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Major fiber monomers face slump in 1980: Production declines forecast for cyclohexane, dimethyl terephthalate, and ethylene oxide as major recession cuts into fiber demand

Bruce F. Greek, 1980 .

Aromatics demand to lag capacity growth

Bruce F. Greek, 1991 .

Titanium dioxide heads for prosperity in 1984

Bruce F. Greek, 1983 .

Chlor-Alkalies Return to Slow Growth Pattern: Lower growth rates in demand for chlorine, caustic soda, and soda ash end capacity expansion and will keep pressure on prices

Bruce F. Greek, 1985 .

Chemical Plant Capacity Use Accelerates as Organics Lead Way: Revived U.S. economy pushes plant use rate for basic chemicals to 68%, highest in two years, and hikes use rates for plastics to 79%, for synthetic fibers to 85%

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1983 .

Apparel Imports Slow Fiber Intermediates Demand: Rising imports coupled with fall in export markets for fibers are hurting major intermediates DMT/PTA, ethylene oxide, cyclohexane

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

Soda ash outpaces other chlor-alkalies: Soda ash prices shoot up as production hits ceiling, but chlorine and caustic soda prices and profitability still show overcapacity burden

Bruce F. Greek, 1980 .

BUSINESS: Chemical Plant Capacity Use Continues Steady RiseUse rate for basic chemicals rose to 78% in third quarter from 72% in first quarter; polymers, however, fell again, slipping to 76% from 81%

Bruce F. Greek, William J. Storck, 1984 .

Thermoplastics Head for Production Records in 1986: Growth in output of five major thermoplastics likely will continue into 1987; profit margins have greatly improved so far this year

Bruce F. Greek, 1986 .

Big-volume acids join the recession: One of chemical industry's few bright spots since 1979, sulfuric and phosphoric acids now are struggling because of poor fertilizer market

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1982 .

Chemical capacity use sinks to 60%: The recession has slashed U.S. chemical plant use across the board; output is down 18% with capacity virtually unchanged

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1982 .

Basic Petrochemicals Swing into Long-Awaited Recovery: Doing much better in 1983 than forecast, basic olefins and aromatics head toward another solid gain in 1984; some supplies could get snug

Bruce F. Greek, 1983 .

Plastics Additives: Less Performing Better

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Slump hits gas-based petrochemicals: Producers of ammonia, urea, methanol, and formaldehyde now hope to merely match last year's production and avoid losing money

Bruce F. Greek, 1982 .

U.S. Farming Pickup Helps Natural Gas-Based Petrochemicals: Ammonia and urea will profit handsomely from turnaround in U.S. fertilizer markets, but imports loom as threat and already are hurting methanol

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

PRODUCT REPORT: Process Catalysts Enjoy Surging Market

Bruce F. Greek, 1989 .

Industry / Business: Chemicals again lure the oil industryRenewed oil company investment in chemicals brings debate over possible replay of disastrous first invasion of 1960's

Bruce F. Greek, 1975 .

Mineral inorganics: steady and profitable: Sulfur and potash are doing best because of strong fertilizer market: lime is limited by slack steel market; phosphorus just survives

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1980 .

Major Changes Could Confront Basic Petrochemicals This Year: As new foreign producers' lower-cost output rises, U.S. industry faces changes in product lines, plant capacities, and operating methods

Bruce F. Greek, 1985 .

Mineral-Based Inorganics Languish in Continuing Recession: It's still tough times for lime, sulfur, potash, and phosphorus because demand continues low in fertilizer, steel, and detergent markets

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1983 .

Chlor-Alkalies Come Back Strong From Recession: Demand, prices are up again for chlorine, caustic soda, and soda ash, but long-term outlook is slower growth than in recent years

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

BUSINESS: Increasing demand for phenol, vinyl acetate, and formaldehyde, coupled with high plant operating rates, raises specter of shortages

Bruce F. Greek, B. Greek, 1987 .

Plastics expected to retain competitive edge

Bruce F. Greek, 1989 .

Plastics monomers ride demand boomiet: Consumption of styrene, vinyl chloride, and propylene oxide has been rising since early spring; but profits still lag and the outlook is hazy

Bruce F. Greek, 1978 .

Plastics monomers settle into slower growth: With increasing maturity of plastics industry, styrene, vinyl chloride, and propylene oxide have reached end of double-digit growth rate

Bruce F. Greek, 1977 .

Slumping Synthetic Fibers May Get Help from Import Limits: To go into effect in October, regulations would reduce imports of apparel, which are hurting U.S. production of polyester, nylon, acrylic fibers

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

Fiber Intermediates Demand Dampened by Apparel Imports

Bruce F. Greek, 1986 .

Demand Surge Surprises Plastics Intermediates Producers: With plants operating near capacity, vinyl chloride, styrene, and toluene diisocyanate face growing tightness in supply

Bruce F. Greek, 1987 .

Business: Thermoplastics profits trail good volumeMore important than ever to U.S. chemical firms, group of five key thermoplastics keeps good growth but suffers weak prices, overcapacity

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1978 .

Petrochemicals inch toward recovery: Following a low in output this summer, basic olefins and aromatics are starting the long road back to financial health

Bruce F. Greek, 1982 .

Production of Basic Petrochemicals Will Continue Upward in 1987: Record volumes will be set for ethylene and propylene as prices strengthen following mid-1986 decline and improve producers' profitability

Bruce F. Greek, 1987 .

Natural gas liquids remain strong petrochemical feedstock

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

ETHYLENE SUPPLY: Crunch worsens with loss of Norco

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Ethylene begins vigorous recovery: Producers see output gains continuing through rest of year, are predicting production will put strain on capacity by 1976

Bruce F. Greek, 1975 .

Rubber-Processing Chemicals

Bruce F. Greek, 1987 .

Outlook Mixed for Natural Gas-Based Petrochemicals: Methanol will be helped by fuel uses, formaldehyde by housing recovery; but ammonia and urea will be hurt by agricultural woes

Bruce F. Greek, 1983 .

Industry / Business: Polypropylene sets for fast growing marketsProduction will double to 4 billion lb in 1980, optimistic producers forecast as they plan flood of new capacity

Bruce F. Greek, 1976 .

Market sags for plastics monomers: Trouble in plastics market has worked its way back to major monomers—vinyl chloride, styrene, propylene oxide—which are reeling

Bruce F. Greek, 1980 .

Ethylene Oxide/Glycol Profitability In Doldrums: Prices of oxide and derivatives drop as demand growth slows and supplies rise, spurring antifreeze and polyester sales but hurting profit margins

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Demand for Fiber Intermediates Continues To Slow: Producers forecast imports of apparel to further reduce consumption of major intermediates DMT/PTA, ethylene oxide, cyclohexane

Bruce F. Greek, 1985 .

Mineral-Based Inorganics Struggle out of Recession: Production will increase notably this year for lime and sulfur but only marginally for potash and phosphorus

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

Hydrogen peroxide use resumes steady growth

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

Overcapacity widening for polypropylene: More than 1 billion lb of new capacity to be added this year puts pressure on prices, may result in a nightmare of intense competition

Bruce F. Greek, 1978 .

Control equipment makers bullish on 1975: Efforts to cut energy costs will help spur sales of process control equipment, offsetting any effects of recession

Bruce F. Greek, 1975 .

Butadiene is forecast to grow sluggishly

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Fiber raw materials lag fibers in recovery: Although polyester and nylon are bouncing back this year, their intermediates—DMT/PTA, ethylene oxide, and cyclohexane—are struggling

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1981 .

Butadiene languishes with autos and housing: Slumping demand for its major markets has broken long-term growth trend for his raw material for most synthetic rubber

Bruce F. Greek, 1975 .

Upswing Continues in Demand for Thermoplastics: Rise in consumption, though at slower pace, begins to push limits of this year's available capacity for some major-volume plastics

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

Mineral-Based Inorganics Face Slower Production Growth: Stagnating demand for lime, sulfur, potash, and phosphorus will hold output below highs set in late 1970s and early 1980s for years to come

Bruce F. Greek, 1985 .

A C&EN special Report: EthyleneAnother price-capacity-construction cycle under way

Bruce F. Greek, 1971 .

New measures bear out productivity drop: Total-factor productivity indexes underscore gravity of U.S. productivity mass, show clearly that it touches the chemical industry

Bruce F. Greek, 1980 .

Thermoset Plastics: Output On Rise, But Likely To Slow: Production of phenolics, polyesters, and epoxides is forecast to grow into 1985 and then slow, pulling down growth rates to zero to 5%

Bruce F. Greek, B. Greek, 1984 .

Thermoplastics continue long market sag: Pause in growth is in third year for high- and low-density polyethylene, polyvinyl chloride, polypropylene, polystyrene

Bruce F. Greek, 1982 .

Detergent Industry Ponders Products for New Decade

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Chemical capacity use bouncing back: U.S. plant use rates have recovered from last summer's low point but still trail levels of a year ago; polymers lead the way

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1981 .

Recession dulls major pigments' luster: Despite the current downturn, titanium dioxide has makings for some good years ahead; further shakeout will have to come first for carbon black

Bruce F. Greek, 1982 .

Chlor-Alkalies Profit From Plant Shutdowns: Capacity rationalization coupled with higher demand shores recent price increases for producers of chlorine, caustic soda, and soda ash

Bruce F. Greek, 1986 .

Industry / Business: Feedstock shift would change olefin economicsOlefin makers considering heavier hydrocarbon feeds are having to revise criteria for evaluating petrochemical processes

Bruce F. Greek, 1975 .

Soda Ash, Caustic Soda Booming, But Chlorine Facing Poor Year

Bruce F. Greek, 1989 .

Ethylene Glycol Supplies Will Be Sufficient To Meet Rising Demand: Producers of this glycol, the key ingredient in antifreeze, plan to offset small decline in production this year by drawdown of inventories

Bruce F. Greek, 1991 .

Saudis plan huge gas processing complex

Bruce F. Greek, 1976 .

Production Slows For Plastics Intermediates: As growth in economy slackens and exports ease, demand declines for vinyl chloride, styrene, and toluene diisocyanate

Bruce F. Greek, 1985 .

Modest Growth Ahead for Rubber

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Ethylene imports slated for Texas

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Plastics monomers-adequate for next year: Monomer supply won't crimp output of any major thermoplastic with possible exception of polyvinyl chloride

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1976 .

Margins Plunge for Steam Cracker Ethylene and Coproducts

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Demand for Architectural Products Helps Boost PVC Capacity: Rapid rise in use of vinyl products, including vinyl siding for home remodeling, sparks debottlenecking efforts and construction of new plants

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Restraints on Imported Apparel Lift Synthetic Fiber Output: Imports curbs, rising demand likely will end production declines for polyester and fibers this year; nylon fiber output to surpass 1985 level

Bruce F. Greek, 1986 .

Elastomers Finally Recover Growth

Bruce F. Greek, 1984 .

Thermoplastics begin uncertain recovery

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1980 .

Polyvinyl Chloride Profitability Starting To Turn Up: Prices of widely used plastic are recovering after falling steadily since mid-1989, paced by resurging demand and inventory rebuilding

Bruce F. Greek, 1990 .

Chemical Plant Capacity Use Leveling Out

Bruce F. Greek, William J. Storck, 1985 .

PRODUCT REPORT: Rubber Chemicals Face More Demanding MarketEmployee at Goody ear's radial passenger car tire plant in Union City, Tenn., checks high-performance tire on production line

Bruce F. Greek, 1989 .

Thermoset Plastics Ride Durable Goods Recovery: Though not yet in sight of new production records or high capacity use, phenolics, polyesters, and epoxies manage moderate rebounds

Bruce F. Greek, 1983 .

Supplies of PET Bottle Resins To Stay Tight for Next Few Years: Producers of poly(ethylene terephthalate) resins for bottle use will boost capacity more than a third this year; demand could rise even faster

Bruce F. Greek, 1987 .

Phenol, Vinyl Acetate Head for Moderate Pickup in 1984: Although many markets are improving, these adhesive intermediates will take time to generate new major growth justifying new investment

Bruce F. Greek, 1983 .

Global Rubber Industry Resumes Growth Trend

Bruce F. Greek, 1986 .

Nylon chemicals may be through the worst: Fresh upsurge in nylon fiber demand, especially for carpets, could revive caprolactam,adipic acid, cyclohexane

Bruce F. Greek, William F. Fallwell, 1976 .

Strong Demand for Styrene Spurs Capacity Expansion: Spate of plans announced by four of eight major producers of the monomer will add about 3.3 billion lb to capacity over next three years

Bruce F. Greek, 1988 .

Output expands in drive for chemical self-sufficiency: Government-dominated chemical industries of Brazil and Mexico are making big investments in chemical plants as they try to reduce their dependence on imported materials

Bruce F. Greek, 1977 .

Phenol, vinyl acetate struggle through 1982: Recession has hurt both of these intermediates for adhesives; vinyl acetate shows more stability than badly slumping phenol

Bruce F. Greek, 1982 .

Chlor-Alkali Capacity Use Hits Record High for Decade: First major plant expansion in several years signals efforts of producers to ease tight supplies and to meet renewed growth in demand

Bruce F. Greek, 1987 .

Plastics In Midst of Banner Year

Bruce F. Greek, 1987 .

Major Industrial Gases: Demand Edging Upward This Year

Bruce F. Greek, 1986 .