Just One Word: Plastics
From Plastics News:
"Now it’s clear that the potential influence of shale gas on the North American plastics industry is amazing. The full impact hasn’t been felt yet. But if you’ve been paying attention, you can see it on the horizon.
Dow Chemical, Formosa Plastics and and Chevron Phillips already have announced North American expansion plans.
ExxonMobil Corp. joined the party June 1, when it disclosed it is
considering building two new polyethylene (PE) lines in Mont Belvieu, Texas,
as well as a new ethane cracker in Baytown, Texas. ExxonMobil’s new PE lines alone will have combined annual capacity of almost 3 billion pounds.
Just five years ago, experts were predicting that North America was
destined to be a net importer of PE. Resin manufacturers were chasing
low-cost feedstocks in the Middle East and growing markets in Asia. No
one was building new capacity in North America. Now economists talk about how low-cost North American resin could help the economy, including plastics processors."
HT: Joe Lais
Update: Mr. McGuire must have had a vision of the shale gas future when he told Benjamin in the movie "The Graduate" (see below):
"Just one word: Plastics. There's a great future in plastics, Ben. Think about it."
Update: Mr. McGuire must have had a vision of the shale gas future when he told Benjamin in the movie "The Graduate" (see below):
"Just one word: Plastics. There's a great future in plastics, Ben. Think about it."
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As the guy in the movie said, "Plastics."
Anyone old enough to know what I am talking about?
From the Plastics Industry Trade Association:
"•The plastics industry is the third largest manufacturing industry in the United States
•The U.S. plastics industry employs more than 876 thousand
•The U.S. plastics industry creates more than $341 billion in annual shipments"
Who knows? Maybe plastics will be the #1 manufacturing industry in the U.S. in a few years.
Ben, you beat me to it.
All the more memorable to you, no doubt, because he was talking to "Benjamin." ;-)
Unknown: Glad to know there is another dinosaur out there reading....
BTW, if you watch the Graduate again, it is amazingly dated. The kid looks positively self-pitying in some scenes. And the med school is comprised of WASPs and the kid, who is "out" as he is a little swarthy.
Times have changed.
That movie's a classic
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