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Chemical firms tight with investment money: Combined spending for R&D and capital investment has been dropping for several years and likely will not turn up this year

Most basic chemical makers are behaving like men with short arms and long pockets these days when it comes to investing in their own futures. They are just not spending much money this year. And they didn't spend much last year either. A C&EN survey of 22 major domestic chemical companies including Allied Chemical, American Cyanamid, Celanese, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, Monsanto, and Union Carbide indicates that the industry's worldwide capital investment in new plant and equipment will total an estimated $2.92 billion in 1972. Last year's spending was $2.93 billion. In 1970 it was $3.08 billion. The high was $3.15 billion in 1966. This means that basic chemical industry capital investment, in terms of current dollars, has been on something of a plateau for eight consecutive years since it reached $2.86 billion in 1965. In terms of constant dollars, 1972 spending will be almost 40% lower than it was ...