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Global Chemical Industry 2013 - New Challenges being Created for an already Highly Regulated Industry
M2 - Fri Feb 08, 3:58AM CST
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/v2lb92/global_chemical) has announced the addition of the "Global Chemical Industry" report to their offering. The global chemical industry has historically being concentrated in three world regions consisting primarily of the North American region, Western Europe and Japan. The European Community remains the largest producer area followed by the USA and Japan. However of late, the dominance of these three regions (together known as the Triad) is being increasingly challenged by changes in feedstock availability and price, labor cost, energy cost, differential rates of economic growth and environmental pressures. And on top of this, the most influential in this phenomenon has been the changing structure of the worldwide chemical industry with the growing regions including India, China, Brazil, Middle East and South East Asia starting to increase their influence in this industry. There is a shift in production from the traditional regions li