Chemical Market Reporter, March 3rd, 1997
A once oversupplied market now has consumers scrambling to find product.
A NEW TWIST to the supply-side driven hydrochloric acid (HCl) market is beginning to take hold and is helping to create a supply crunch. Also, the specter of rising chlorine prices and a spree of outages at byproduct HCl producers' plants is driving prices up as supply gets tight.
The relatively new trend of producing ethylene dichloride (EDC) with anhydrous HCl may be the factor that is turning a market that had a looming oversupply just six months ago to one where distributors are now scrambling for product. "We're ...
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