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Peter Huntsman

Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer, Huntsman Corporation

Search every verified Peter Huntsman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Peter Huntsman, chairman, president, and CEO of Huntsman Corporation, recently discussed the company’s planned merger with Olin at the Gulf Coast Industry Forum, describing it as a response to the need for greater scale and vertical integration in the chemical industry. He said that supply chain problems, limited raw material sourcing, and global tariffs have made size and integration more important, contrasting this with an earlier period when large chemical companies sought to break up into specialty businesses. Huntsman also emphasized the need for a long-term and consistent U.S. energy and regulatory policy, stating that investments lasting 30 years require stability in sourcing, regulation, and permitting, and he advocated for advocacy groups to educate politicians about the industry’s role in modern life. On Huntsman Corporation’s second quarter 2026 earnings call, Huntsman addressed the impact of a competitor’s outage on polyurethane pricing, estimating the benefit to his company was in the low $2–3 million range, and he noted that upstream outages had ended by the third quarter. He also discussed the company’s strategy to grow downstream derivatives in polyurethanes, citing investments in Louisiana and capacity in China, Europe, and North America, and pointed to growth rates of 8% in advanced materials and 4% in polyurethanes as exceeding underlying market trends due to innovation. Regarding the proposed merger with Olin, he stated that regardless of market conditions, the company and shareholders would be better off with the transaction, and that achieving $400 million in synergies would help offset inflation pressures on an ongoing basis.

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“I'm paying for coal. I'm paying for solar. I'm paying for wind. I'm paying for nuclear from France. And I'm paying for imports of gas coming in from the United States. I'm paying for five sources. At best, two of those sources are actually operating and supplying our facilities. But I'm paying for all five of them. I mean that literally and you add on to that the regulatory the carbon taxes and the cost above that an”

“There is no viable path when you look at on a global basis. When you look at just replacing hydrocarbons with renewables, again, renewables have a very important role to play in certain areas, in certain fields. We make the raw materials that go into the wind blades and solar panels and so forth. I'm not anti- any of that. I want to be very clear on that. But as far as the reliable, the reason why you're building gas”

“We have seen a 90% decline in Huntsman's production rates in Europe. Now some of that is by design, asset sales, we've sold off assets, TIO2 and so forth, but a lot of those assets, the vast majority of those assets, we sold them off because we did not see a support of government, a support of energy policy, and we could see the writing on the wall.”

“We spend more money on paying the interest for the debt of our federal government than we do for the United States Department of Defense.”

“Europe does not stand a prayer of a chance of competing against the Chinese with EVs. They don't. Is the European situation fixable at this point? Not at the present time. I've talked to government leaders, I've asked them if tomorrow somebody came out today and just proved the science incorrect with climate, would you change? Most of them said no, we wouldn't. This is a way of life for us, this is where we want to b”

“The EPA today has 90 days by law, that was the Frank Lautenberg Act, that they have 90 days, it's a bipartisan bill that was passed, what was it, 7 or 8 years ago, and it was supposed to reform how you regulate chemicals and at the same time how you approve chemicals. I've been a chief executive officer for over 20 years, I rarely have ever heard CEOs complain about the overregulation of our industry as much as the r”

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