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The Contact Patch is a new quarterly report on the carbon black industry. It includes two components.

The first is a pricing report that provides quarterly and monthly contract prices for major rubber grades for the United States and the European Union, as well as monthly spot prices for China.

The second component is a carbon black supply and demand update that provides year-to-date figures based on the latest quarterly data and full-year forecasts for the current year, with a comparison to the previous year's performance during the same period.

Data cover all major countries as well as regional and global totals, and include carbon black capacity, utilization, production, and apparent consumption. Each issue also includes revised forecasts, capacity developments, status of pending projects, and industry news.

The Contact Patch report can be purchased either as a single issue or on a yearly subscription basis (four issues). Contact Notch for subscription rates.

Overview & Table of Contents (PDF)

This is the essential sourcebook for the global carbon black industry. Published annually, the Carbon Black World Data Book provides an up-to-date and comprehensive overview of the $11 billion carbon black industry, focusing on global supply and demand, capacity, utilization rates, plant expansion and modernization programs, pricing, foreign trade, market share, restructuring, feedstocks, and trends in major applications.

The latest edition was published in January 2009 and is fully revised and updated. Its forecasts and assumptions include the effects of the current global economic downturn. Data cover all years from 1997 through 2007, with projections for 2008 and forecasts for 2009, 2010, 2015, and 2025.

The final report is 486 pages and includes 187 tables. The report includes a separate Excel spreadsheet containing all of the data from the report as well as extensive supplementary data on global carbon black supply and demand.

Clients of the Carbon Black World Data Book control some 70% of the world's carbon black capacity, and include seven of the world’s top ten suppliers.

Overview & Table of Contents (PDF)
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World Thermal Black provides a detailed analysis of the global market for thermal black, a type of specialty carbon black manufactured from natural gas. Thermal black is used primarily in the rubber industry, where it improves resilience and elasticity in components such as seals, gaskets, o-rings, diaphragms, belts and hoses. Other markets for thermal black include wire and cable jacketing, refractories, metallurgy and high temperature insulation.
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