What’s Up with Plastic & Rubber Machinery Market October 18, 2007
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Boosted by bolstered BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China), new demands for plastic and rubber machinery are constantly being made on overall industry. Since end-products are changing frequently, machinery players have to exhibit a high degree of flexibility and willingness to provide customer-specific solutions. Those efforts also include increasing development in process engineering and continual optimization of machine and process controls and improvements in user friendliness and functional design in conjunction with active quality management such as microelectronics and computers now in standard use in quality assurance.
In the coming years, spurred by strong needs for finished product sector, the plastic rubber and rubber machinery industry will continue to grow in spite of slow-down economy. In fact, in some countries, rubber and plastic industry is the fastest growth sector. From the convenience of end-users, more and more plastic and rubber plants are set up near its buyers. Among plastic and rubber machinery, plastic injection molding machines are mostly frequently used gears to enjoy 54% market share. Others like extruders, blow molding machines and vacuum molding machines are also popular.
USA
Listed as the largest consuming and manufacturing country of plastic/rubber-related products in the world, the demand for plastics processing machinery in U.S. will reach $2.8 billion in 2005, driven by further inroads plastics make against competitive materials. Growth will also result from more advanced machine designs which will benefit higher-end equipment as plastics processors seek to improve efficiency and quality.
In fact, in the country, rubber and plastic industry is the fastest growth sector, rising 35% in five years and posting US$ 392 billion in value. Although as the largest plastic and rubber machinery supplier, U.S. imports 45% of its total needs mainly from Germany, Canada, Japan, Italy and France. From the convenience of end-users, more and more plastic and rubber plants are set up near its buyers. Among plastic and rubber machinery, plastic injection molding machines are mostly frequently used gears to enjoy 54% market share. Others like extruders, blow molding machines and vacuum molding machines are also popular. In U.S. large tonnage presses and screw-diameter extruders are the top-2 best-selling machines.
GERMANY
Germany is world’s No.1 maker of plastic machinery with the overall employees totaling 27,500, ahead of Japan, Italy, U.S., France, Austria and Taiwan. 85% of country¡¦s output is for overseas markets with the total value of exports amounting to 3,081 million Euro. Noted as the biggest and most significant sector among German industries, the plastics and rubber machinery industry achieved the production value of 4,179 million Euro, grew by 8.5% compared to the year-ago level, in spite of strong Euro. New order income in 2003 increased by 13%, better than previous prediction of 5% increase. The new order income is anticipated to 5% increase as orders from Chinese processors continue to break record high.
ITALY
Made up by some 300 manufacturing companies and with relevant workforce accounting for about 13,000 employees, Italian plastic and rubber machinery industry covers a wide variety of single and twin screw extruders from 20 to 400 mm, injection molding machinery from 20 to 10,000 ton clamping force, several kinds of extrusion and injection¡Vblow molding machines, suitable for producing both small bottles and very large containers, several lines of machinery for rigid and flexible polyurethane foams etc..
Benefiting from increasing orders from China, Iran and Russia, Italian plastic and rubber machinery production inched up by 3%, from 3,65 to 3,75 billion euro, whilst export increased by 2%, almost reaching 2,15 billion euro. The domestic market value remained practically unchanged, stopping under the value of 2,2 billion euro. The usual and great surplus of the trade balance further increased (almost 7%), thus reaching 1,6 billion euro. However, the orders to Italy are somewhat unstable owing to the lack of investments of the Italian processors and the uncertainty in several levels.
FRANCE
Listed as No.3 largest supplier nation in Europe after Germany and Italy, the French plastic & rubber equipments manufacturing industry is backed up with 2,000 employees with the total turnover reaching Euro 1,305 million. The major gears include injection molding machines (Euro 183,9 millions), blow molding machines (Euro 750 millions) and extrusion machines (Euro 42,3 millions).
Russia
Russian plastics industry currently produces 250,000- 300,000 kinds of plastic goods, excluding pipes, sheets, and films. Production of such a large range of products, which is annually adjusted and innovated by 20-25%, requires individual tooling and equipment with a wide range of sizes and technical specifications. Local machinery producers manufacture extruders for sheet production, polyethylene film production machines, machinery for small diameter pipe and hose production, polymer waste processing machines, and extrusion lines for various plastic products. Currently, imports dominate Russia’s market for plastics processing equipment and are led by Germany and Italy. Recently, machinery suppliers from China, Korea, and other Asian countries have aggressively penetrated the market with their low-cost equipment.
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