Article: Utility price drop offers vitality to carbon black ; Producers wait for tire, auto rebound.(Brief Article)

A drop in gas and oil prices has given the carbon black industry a spark of new life.

But producers still aren't completely out of the doldrums that have plagued the industry for more than a year. For that to happen, the tire and automotive industries need to rebound from their own slide, according to Vince Guercio, president of Montclair, N.J.-based CTC International, and other industry insiders.

While the industry isn't in particularly good shape, it has been worse off, said Guercio, consultant to the carbon black industry and publisher of the ``CBO Monitor'' newsletter. ``As cars go, so go carbon black companies,'' he said. ``And automotive is not ...

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