- Market Overview
- Strategic Analysis
- Key Features
Market Overview
Duration: Short-term – 2-year price forecast and market outlook
The global engineering resins market, which encompasses key performance materials such as Polycarbonate (PC), Polyamide (Nylon 6/66), and Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS), is fundamentally constrained by persistent oversupply and weak demand, severely challenging producer profitability worldwide. This market weakness is primarily driven by sluggish growth in core downstream sectors, such as automotive and construction, combined with relentless price pressure from abundant, low-cost imports from Mainland China, particularly impacting PC and Nylon producers in Europe and the Americas. While producers are utilizing anti-dumping duties (ADD) and engaging in capacity rationalization (e.g., European PC closures) to mitigate the impact, operating rates remain suppressed, and integrated cash margins are at historically low levels across many petrochemical value chains. To navigate this environment, market leaders must prioritize resilient supply chain strategies, capitalize on high-growth areas such as electric vehicles (EVs) and e-mobility, and employ advanced market analytics to manage trade volatility and exploit favorable feedstock cost differentials.
Key Products Covered
- ABS Resins
- Nylon 6
- Nylon 6.6
- Nylon Resin (engineering thermoplastic)
- Polyacetal (Acetal Resin) (POM)
- Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT)
- Polycarbonate Resins
- Filled Polypropylene (North America)
Strategic Analysis
Duration: Short-term – 2-year price forecast and market outlook
The Global Engineering Resins Market Advisory Service provides clients with a panoramic yet deeply analytical view of global engineering resin markets, delivering comprehensive coverage across the entire value chain—from key feedstocks to downstream end-use sectors. This service integrates critical market data, including pricing trends, supply–demand balances, operating schedules, cash costs, and margin performance, ensuring a holistic understanding of market dynamics.
With an emphasis on the interconnected nature of global petrochemical markets, the service examines both global and regional feedstock movements and evaluates their cascading influence on engineering resin market equilibrium. Subscribers also benefit from expert commentary on trade flows, regulatory developments, technological advancements, and significant market-moving events.
The strength of the service lies in its ability to blend data-driven insights with strategic analysis across the full value chain, equipping decision-makers with the clarity, foresight, and confidence needed to navigate complex and rapidly evolving engineering resin markets.
The Global Engineering Resins Service delivers a complete perspective on world markets for engineering resins and their linkages to upstream feedstocks and downstream applications. The service includes detailed production economics, trade intelligence, and analysis of supply–demand fundamentals shaping the global industry
Key Features
Duration: Short-term – 2-year price forecast and market outlook
PRICES COVERED
Contract and spot price summary with a brief review of current market conditions.
- Nylon 6 & 66
- Polycarbonate
- ABS
- Acetal
- PBT
GLOBAL MONTHLY MARKET REPORT
Clients will receive this report on a monthly basis via email. The report offers comprehensive commentary on the engineering resins market, covering current market conditions in terms of supply/demand, price developments, operational issues, insights into cost evolution in key regions, and forecasts for prices and margins. Additionally, it includes a concise summary of industry news, commentary on feedstock chemical markets, and an overview of global economic data.
Key country focus: Americas, Asia, China, Europe, Middle East, Africa
DATA SUPPLEMENT
This report provides an updated market overview, accompanied by quarterly supply–demand balances, detailed trade grids for key countries and regions, and operating rate assessments. Together, these insights offer a clear and structured view of market dynamics across the global engineering resins value chain.
ACCESS TO SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS
Clients receive direct, one-on-one access to industry experts through phone consultations, email support, or scheduled meetings to discuss the key insights featured in the monthly market report. This personalized advisory service enables subscribers to deepen their understanding of market fundamentals, price drivers, and supply–demand dynamics, while clarifying complex data points and analysis. It also provides tailored perspectives on region-specific market trends, empowering clients to make more informed, strategic decisions across the global petrochemical value chain
SUPPLY & DEMAND
This service delivers short-term production news, up-to-date production statistics, and detailed plant-by-plant operating schedules, along with coverage of long-term structural changes in global supply. It also features in-depth end-use market analysis across a wide range of downstream sectors, supported by comprehensive reviews of macro-level industry trends. These insights help clients anticipate market shifts and make informed strategic decisions in the evolving global landscape.
Region
- China
- United States
- West Europe
Chemical
- Polycarbonate (PC) Resins
- ABS Resins
- Nylon Resin (engineering thermoplastic)
TRADE
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Related Products
Related Chemicals
- Acetaldehyde
- Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) Resins
- Adipic Acid
- Caprolactam (CPR)
- Nylon 6
- Nylon 6,6
- Polyacetal (POM Polymers)
- Polybutylene Terephthalate (PBT)
- Polycarbonate (PC) Resins
- Polyimides
- Polyphenylene Sulfide Resins (PPS)
- Polypropylene (PP)
- Propylene, Polymer/Chemical Grade
- Propylene, Refinery Grade (RGP)