The petrol chemical industry plays a major and important role in our everyday life. Almost everything that we are dependent on nowadays is made from petrochemicals. These include plastics, home appliances, clothes, footwear and a lot more other applications. This industry is a rapidly developing and changing one and professional and others in the industry need to keep up-to-date with the latest cutting age developments. This is because new processes, new product and new chemicals with new applications are invented or discovered everyday.

The US department of transport has approved to permit in-house use of modern methanol powered fuel cells that are used to power computers and other portable gadgets. It is therefore expected that there will be a slight to significant increase in the use of fuel cell and methanol in everyday use especially in portable devices.

Passengers will be allowed to use methanol in commercial airline passenger compartments. This will also be allowed in the crew compartments as well.
All the major manufacturers of hand held devices such as mobile phones, digital cameras, DVD players and laptops, will see a significant or perhaps a slight boost in their overall sales figures.

Thus a significant growth and expansion is expected in the petrol chemical industry and this will see a significant growth in hand held devices.