Petrochemicals – Mexico – Pemex 2010 petrochemicals production up 10.3%
Mexico’s state oil company Pemex produced 13.2Mt of petrochemicals in 2010, up 10.3% from 12.0Mt the previous year, according to statistics on the company’s website. In December alone, output rose 18.1% to 1.08Mt from 915,000t the year earlier. Full year production of benzene jumped 49.4% to 118,000t, while toluene rose 35.3% to 188,000t, ethylene oxide [...]
Telecommunications – Brazil – WBI Brasil expects 200% spurt in 2011, following 80% expansion in 2010
After expanding 80% in 2010, Brazilian digital communication consultancy WBI Brasil expects revenues to soar 200% in 2011, as the firm will add personnel in Sao Paulo, Santa Catarina and Rio de Janeiro states, marketing director Paulo Kendzerski told BNamericas without providing hard figures. Kendzerski attributed his company’s growth to the increased focus Brazilian businesses [...]
Petrochemicals – Brazil – Flexible plastic packaging sector could grow 10% in 2010
Brazil’s flexible plastic packaging industry is expected to grow by up to 10% in 2010 compared with 2009, both in terms of revenues and production volumes, due to strong GDP growth forecast for the year, national flexible plastic packaging industry association Abief president, Alfredo Schmitt, told BNamericas. Historically, the sector has grown at about 1.5-2 [...]
Petrochemicals – Brazil – Packaging industry revenues to reach US$22.6bn in 2010
Brazil’s packaging industry is expected to generate revenues of 40bn reais (US$22.6bn) in 2010, a 10.5% increase compared with 35.4bn reais last year, said economic analysis coordinator at IBRE-FGV, Salomao Quadros, during a conference held in Sao Paulo by national packaging association Abre. IBRE-FGV is the economics institute of Brazilian think tank Fundaçao Getulio Vargas. [...]