Asia will lead global polyethylene capacity additions

The company’s report, ‘Global Polyethylene Industry Outlook to 2024 – Capacity and Capital Expenditure Forecasts with Details of All Active and Planned Plants’, reveals that Asia is expected to have a new-build and expansion polyethylene capacity of 24.16 million tpy from 61 new-build and expansion projects. Out of these, 56 are new-build projects and the remaining are expansion projects.

Sowmya Sivaji, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, says: “In Asia, the capacity growth of polyethylene will be mainly from China and India, which together accounts for around 73% of the regions’ capacity additions. The new-build projects account for most of the capacity additions in both these countries.”

GlobalData identified North America as the second highest region in terms of capacity additions in the global polyethylene industry. The region will add a new-build capacity of about 12 million tpy from 19 planned and announced projects. The major capacity additions will be from the US, which is expected to contribute about 10.55 million tpy by 2024.

The Middle East stands third, with new-build polyethylene capacity of 10.30 million tpy by 2024. The major capacity additions will be from Iran, which is expected to contribute about 6.82 million tpy by 2024.

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