How Watertight is your ark?(Huntsman Corp., Nova Chemicals)(Statistical Data Included)

Chemical Market Reporter, April, 2001

How well are you protected against the threat of high energy prices and slowing economic growth? CMR's Joseph Chang and John Hoffman pose the question to top North America ceos Peter Huntsman, Mike Parker, Jeff Lipton and Pierre Choquette Peter Huntsman ceo Huntsman Corporation Strength in diversity Around half of our olefins capacity in the US is flexible, and that's running on naphtha.

All of our European capacity, which is about 910 000 tonne/year, is gas/oil based, and we are running at 100% of capacity. We also have about 454 000 tonne/year of ethylene, that's ethylene/propylene mix, in North America, and that's running at about 70% capacity. For our light mixed streams, we're at 60 to 70%.' As far as maximising profitability goes...

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