Cautious chlor-alkali industry awaits economic & industrial revival

摘要

The marked economic slowdown in emerging markets like China and India, the Euro-zone crisis and general stagnation in the global' economy is clouding the global chlor-alkali industry's near-term growth outlook. The industry, whose fortunes are intrinsically linked to GDP fluctuations, is tentative about how the aforesaid global events would unfold and repercussions on its growth prospects. Even as the industry is wary of the near-term prospects, there are hopes of better longer-term growth with possibilities of an industrial revival sometime after 2014. The shale gas revolution in the US has also given a shot in the arm to the North American chlor-alkali sector.