Albemarle aims to boost growth in catalysts

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2009
• Weight: 59 KB
• Volume: 2009
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1351-4180
• DOI: 10.1016/s1351-4180(09)70258-2

✦ Synopsis

by 24.1% year on year to 20,258 tonnes while import values contracted by 14% to Yen 121,946 M ($1279 M). Nickel catalysts and nickel-compound catalysts import volumes, which account for a big chunk of the market, fell 14.4% to 4945 tonnes, with import values down 8.3% to Yen 8654 M. Supported silicaalumina catalysts registered a 7.8% import volume growth, as import values rose 8.9% to Yen 1829 M. Supported platinum catalysts saw import volumes fall 36.8% to 585 tonnes, with import values dropping 26.1% to Yen 14,963 M. Catalyst exports expanded 4.3% in volume terms and 10% in value terms during the same period.