EU Production Falls in First Two Months of 2012

Chemicals production in the European Union (EU) decreased 2.2% in the first two months of 2012, and 2.4% in February alone on a year-on-year basis, according to Cefic’s latest monthly chemical trends report. Consumer chemicals was the only subsector that experienced an increase, up 0.7% during February 2012 compared with February 2011, and basic inorganics and specialty chemicals output decreased by 5.2% and 4.5%, respectively, year over year. Petrochemicals and polymers production also fell in February compared with the same period of the previous year, by...

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