Formation of Methanol industrial cluster based on market elasticity

Due to the increase in global and domestic methanol production capacity and forecasts made to reduce the price of methanol in the coming years, the need to allocate part of the country's export methanol to become more valuable products is felt for this purpose by studying the methanol products market and domestic demand trends In the coming years, the potential for the production of important methanol derivatives has been prioritized, so for this purpose, we need to use industrial clusters as a group of firms that are located in a specific geographical location and operate in the same direction. Therefore, methanol products (which is a total of 98 products) after reviewing and passing through two filters, in the form of an industrial cluster that includes 21 industrial units are proposed for investment in this article, which in addition to deprivation more than Petrochemicals, increasing exports and employment provide the potential to produce a variety of other products that will have future markets. The most important products proposed in the first step of methanol industrial cluster formation are propylene, ethanol, ethylene, formaldehyde, and phenol-formaldehyde urea-formaldehyde resin, 1 and 4 butane DL, methylamines, dimethylformamide, acetic acid, vinyl acetate, d-methyl Ether, and methyl methacrylate.