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• n  a gaseous hydrocarbon C4H6; used in making synthetic rubbers

• Even by the end of the year, when all petroleum butadiene plants will presumably be in production, alcohol will still furnish half the butadiene.
• But petroleum-butadiene plants need around 300 tons of steel and 89 units of compressor horsepower per 1,000 tons of butadiene capacity; alcohol-butadiene plants need about the .
• And getting a butadiene plant into peak production may easily take six months, with each new production kink a complex problem that may shut the entire plant for days.

News & Articles

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• Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) Industry Outlook in Asia Pacific to 2017 - Market Size, Company Share, Price ...
      NEW YORK, June 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) Industry Outlook in Asia Pacific ...
  June 13, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• New Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene Copolymer Market Monthly Monitoring Service Offered by Merchant Research ...
  What are the latest events in the acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer market? What are the key market trends? What legislation and tax changes have recently occurred? What ca
  June 10, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance

Quotes

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• Dhirubhai Ambani in European Plastics News
  He said: "Reliance is the largest player in the synthetic rubber business in India. We want to build on this leadership to become one of the top ten elastomer companies in the world. Reliance will create additional capacities of poly butadiene...
• George Knox in Bloomberg
  Childhood cancers are strongly determined by prenatal or early postnatal exposures to oil-based combustion gases, especially from engine exhausts,Knox said in his study. "1,3- butadiene, a known carcinogen, may be directly causal."