He is a known industry expert on styrene, polystyrene and
expandable polystyrene. Mr. Feng is currently the Service Leader
for the North American Aromatics Market Service and has been
covering the aromatics markets for over fourteen years at CMAI and
IHS Markit. He has over 36 years of experience in the chemical
industry working first for Air Products and Chemicals and then for
Sterling Chemicals. During this time he had assignments in Process
Engineering, Process Technology, Information Systems,
Environmental, Supply Chain and Commercial. In 1992 he joined
Sterling Chemicals where he had various supply chain and commercial
responsibilities for styrenics and other products. Mr. Feng was a
Partner at CMAI when it was acquired by IHS Markit in May of 2011.
He has covered the benzene, toluene, mixed xylenes, styrene,
polystyrene, EPS, ABS and phenolics markets at CMAI and IHS Markit
but focuses currently on styrene, polystyrene and expandable
polystyrene. As an industry expert, he has testified as an Expert
Witness at numerous arbitration and court cases. He contributes to
number of services and reports including the North American
Aromatics Market Report. Mr. Feng has written for a number of World
Analyses and is now responsible for the World Styrene Analysis,
World Polystyrene Analysis and World Expandable Polystyrene
Analysis. He is a frequent speaker at events such as the IHS Markit
World Petrochemical Conference, EPS Expo, Foodservice Packaging
Institute, Badger's World Styrene Conference. He has assisted with
single client work in the areas of strategic planning, mergers and
acquisitions, bankruptcies, benchmarking, litigation and market
analysis. Mr. Feng holds a Bachelors and Masters of Science degree
in Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, US, and a
Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the University
of Houston, US.
