{"id":13524,"date":"2003-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-18T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20030219-03n"},"modified":"2003-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-02-18T22:00:00","slug":"fatty-alcohols-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/fatty-alcohols-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatty alcohols market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US fatty alcohol market is suffering from weak demand and overcapacity and petrochemical producers like Shell and BP are decreasing capacity. Prices were 10-15% weaker in 2002 than 2001. Nevertheless, in order to counterbalance increases in the key raw material prices, US producers of fatty alcohols are trying to increase prices. Worldwide, Kao&#8217;s newly expanded plant in Malaysia and Sasol&#8217;s new plant in South Africa are adding capacity. With global demand estimated to increase by nearly 3%, the fatty alcohol market is expected to firm in 2003 provided that excess US capacity is kept idle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US fatty alcohol market is suffering from weak demand and overcapacity and petrochemical producers like Shell and BP are decreasing capacity. Prices were 10-15%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13524"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}