Market Research Reports: Brightstocks

A comprehensive business report on the global future for brightstocks and heavier-viscosity lubricant basestocks specifically focusing on:

• Current and forecast supply and demand by region
• Key formulation approaches
• Key manufacturing approaches
• Intermaterial competition (synthetic brightstocks, polyisobutanes)
• Current and future pricing scenarios
• Competitive forces
• Business opportunities and threats for suppliers and buyers
• Supplier profiles

The Global Business Outlook for Brightstocks, 2010-2020 will provide subscribers with a comprehensive, accurate, and independent appraisal of both the global supply and demand and business opportunities as the lubricant basestock business faces the challenges of the new millennium. The study is designed specifically to provide subscribers with the information and insights required to construct sound business plans and capitalize on emerging opportunities in the very dynamic lubricant basestock business.

The study will focus specifically on paraffinic and naphthenic brightstocks used in commercial automotive, consumer automotive, and industrial lubricant and functional fluid applications. The base year for the supply and demand data will be 2010. The study will include forecasts for 2015 and 2020.

The study will cover the global market; however, the study will be broken into the following regions: North America, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, and Africa and the Middle East. International trade will also be examined in the report, as the basestock business is increasingly becoming truly global.

It is clear that the basestocks business has changed significantly over the last 10 years. The predicted North American and Western European plant closings have occurred, basestock prices for the medium-viscosity Group I basestocks have dropped in line with the forecast, demand for Group II and specialty basestocks has increased, GTL basestocks seem to be a reality, and joint ventures, mergers, and acquisitions continue to consolidate the supply side of the business.

The Global Business Outlook for Brightstocks, 2010-2020 is a syndicated analysis designed specifically to help subscribers navigate the challenging “white water” of change that lies ahead. In addition to providing an objective and through analysis of brightstock supply and demand, the study will present an unbiased, forward-thinking assessment of what the business for this viscosity grade will look like in the next 10 years on a global basis. It will also address the opportunities that will be presented to the suppliers, as well as threats that might loom for the buyers through this period of rapid change.

The report will provide subscribers with:

• An objective evaluation of where the brightstock business is today and where it is going
• A clear understanding of supply and demand drivers
• A pragmatic analysis of competitive forces
• An unbiased assessment of future supply and demand
• – Insights into projected plant closings, expansions, and grass roots investments that could affect supply


• – An assessment of decommissioned or mothballed PDA units that could be restarted to increase supply


• – What kind of changes, if any, can happen on the manufacturing side to increase supply, such as synthetic brightstocks


• – Demand that could move to alternatives


• Manufacturing technologies: what changes could be made to enable greater production of brightstocks at existing facilities?
• Intermaterial competition
• – When would the PIBs become more interesting in a greater number of applications?


• A critical examination of current and likely pricing scenarios
• Forecast scenarios from which to build solid business plans
• Valuable insights and information on business opportunities and threats

Kline is unmatched in our ability to gather hard-to-get market and competitive intelligence with a high degree of confidence. Kline's market analysis approach places the principal emphasis on primary research techniques to ensure that the foundation of business intelligence and insight is accurate, current, and reliable.

During the course of field research, Kline's professional staff of industry experts will conduct in-depth discussions and personal interviews with a wide range of knowledgeable industry participants and opinion leaders, including finished lubricant manufacturers and marketers, distributors and suppliers, basestock refiners, lubricant additive suppliers, leading OEMs, key end users, and other direct influencers on brand and supplier purchase decisions.

This approach has proven to be the most effective and reliable approach to obtaining accurate market data, capturing expert insights, and identifying business opportunities. Primary research will represent the bulk of our research efforts.

In addition, this analysis will be supplemented by secondary research drawn from the review of suppliers' product literature and price lists; a search of recent trade and technical literature; Internet sources; and analysis of statistical data from government, industry, and trade associations and agencies.