Pigments on rollercoaster ride
By Jessica Roberts
Published: Friday, 17 December 2010
Bumpy road ahead for pigment producers as construction and automotive markets decline in the west but rise in the east, driven by an emerging Asian middle class
The pigments supply-demand rollercoaster of the last three
years shows few signs of slowing down. In wide-ranging markets
from construction to plastics, and automobiles to ceramics,
pigment producers throughout the world are waiting with baited
breath for their respective governments’ fiscal
policies.
Several resulting factors of the global financial...