2002年,美国炭黑市场比2002年初预测的要好得多,但石油和天然气价格上扬使其利润受到缩减的影响。Sid Richardson炭黑公司供销经理认为,由于汽车销量增加的拉动,炭黑市场运行极好,过去几个月销售兴旺。据称,该公司炭黑装置开工率超过90％,整个炭黑工业的开工率至少在80％以上。然而该公司指出,在2002年11～12月汽车市场销 In 2002, the U.S. carbon black market was much better than forecast in early 2002, but rising oil and gas prices reduced its profits. Sid Richardson Carbon Black’s supply and marketing manager believes that the carbon black market has done extremely well and has been thriving in the past few months due to the increase in car sales. Allegedly, the company operating rate of carbon black device over 90%, the entire black industry started at least 80%. However, the company pointed out that the car market was sold in November-December 2002