CHEMICAL AND PETROCHEMICAL

updated Mar/2009

 

RANKING

The largest companies in the chemicals and petrochemicals, according to the annual Best and Biggest Examination 2008 are Braskem, Refap, Copesul, Bunge, BASF, Union Petrochemical, Dow, Bayer, DuPont and Rhodia.

The largest companies in market leadership won in sales are Braskem, Refap, Copesul, Bunge, BASF, Union Petrochemical, Dow, Bayer, Rhodia and IPQ.

THE GREATEST OF CHEMICAL AND PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY

GROSS SALES

  U.S. $ million - 2007 data

 

1

Braskem

9 379,5

2

Refap

6 947,2

3

Copesul

4 802,8

4

Bunge

3 481,9

5th

Basf

2 794,1

6

Union Petrochemical

2 645,8

7

Dow

2 238,5

8

Bayer

1 827,4

9

Rhodia

1 712,8

10 º

DuPont

1 701,9

                           

Source: Survey and Best Maiores/2008

THE GREATEST OF CHEMICAL AND PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY

CONQUERED IN MARKET SALES%

 

1

Braskem

14.1

2

Refap

10.4

3

Copesul

7.2

4

Bunge

5.2

5th

Basf

4.2

6

Union Petrochemical

4.0

7

Dow

3.4

8

Bayer

2.7

9

Rhodia

2.6

10 º

IPQ

2.3

                      Median: 1.5 45 companies

Source: Survey and Best Maiores/2008

MARKET ENVIRONMENT

 

The sector will suffer in the short term, being at the end of its latest round of expansion, just when the global crisis - which causes a greater supply than demand.

controlada por Polietilenos União, a Rio Polímeros, a Petroquímica União ea Quattor Petroquímica, ex-Suzano). The positive factors that can mitigate the crisis would be the falling prices of raw materials - that already happened and the consolidation of the sector itself, which after the wave of acquisitions, resulted in two major petrochemical: Braskem and Quattor Holdings (controlled by Polyethylenes Union Rio Polymers, Petrochemicals and Quattor Union, former Suzano).

The opportunity in the short term would be the manufacture of resins - which are even imported by Brazil, which produced internally, and for 2010, with the recovery from the effects of the global crisis, in sectors such as agriculture, construction, hygiene and cleaning, automotive and electronics. It is noteworthy that the increase in domestic demand is very much conditioned, as in many other sectors, credit, currently hampered by the crisis.

Exports could be facilitated by the current position of the exchange. The question is, at a time of global crisis, which markets would be in a position to buy Brazilian products, especially in the current environment, misalignment of stocks and prices, which negatively influenced the results of the last quarter of 2008 as a drop in production of 19.56 % and domestic sales of 38.03% over the same period in 2007. consumption of chemicals fell mainly in the U.S., Europe and China. dos produtos químicos de uso industrial no mercado internacional. Falling prices of commodities such as oil and naphtha, dropped the price of chemicals for industrial use in the international market.

Source: Examination Biggest and Best 2008, Evaluation of PricewaterhouseCoopers, Gazeta Mercantil, Notebook C, Anna Lucia France.