Chemicals

For polyester fibres, PET bottles, food, pharma, paints, coatings and adhesives

Makes diapers superabsorbent and is key to coatings, adhesives and sealants

Bringing alkalinity to industries including pulp & paper, soap & detergents

Polycarbonate, isocyanates, epichlorohydrin and PVC precursor vinyl chloride monomer

Polyamide resins and filaments for emerging mass manufacturing and 3D print paradigms

An extreme application coating in wind power, shipping and pipes, but also an effective FCM additive - a diverse feedstock

For producing glycols MEG, DEG and TEG for use in antifreeze, polyester fibres and PET packaging or plastics applications

Includes natural and/or plant-based; the chemically synthesised and blends of both - materials that matter

From additives for food and lubricants to use in unsaturated polyester resins, two versatile chemical feedstocks

From orthoxylenes to phthalic anhydride, then into additives that give plastics flexibility

Phenol is a feedstock for detergents, herbicides and pharma, and acetone is key to bisphenol A

Key to wires and cables, faux leather and wallpaper applications, butanol feeds into acrylates too

From ladies’ stockings to automobile components, nylon finds wide uses as a polymerisation

Feedstock for textiles and packaging products, they draw on the same raw material sources

From rigid to flexible foams and coatings to specialty adhesives, sealants and elastomers

High, low or linear polyethylene, sectors including moulding and extrusion use polyolefin products

The essential building block materials: Ethylene, propylene and butadiene made from olefins

Using phthalic and maleic anhydrides, isophthalic acid, styrene monomer and glycols, UPR mirrors GDP