zeal and feedstock costs have hit unprecedent highs this year.

zeal and feedstock costs have hit unprecedent highs this year, if it be not that chemical makers have successfully defend ed themselves by passing through the additional require to be paid [i]or[/i] undergones in the form of price increases. That meaning combined with stronger volumes and cost-cutting efforts, has more than twig energy and raw material increases, companies say. Industry profits spring backed strongly in firsthalf 2004 despite the mechanical value and feedstock increases, raising confidence of the same heights that industry is in a sustainable regaining and heading toward another peak.

"Supply-demand dynamics are in the industry's favor again," says Chris Pappas, president/styrenics at Nova Chemicals. "This has allowed prices to prompt up ...

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