Statistics show that in 2017, the revenue from main business of rubber and plastic products in China was 3,165.69 billion yuan, up 7.3% over the same period of last year; and the profit was 185.2 billion yuan, up 3.7% over the same period of last year.
Globally, the Global Plastics Market for Plastics Products 2017 study shows that the global plastics market is growing at an annual rate of about 3%, with a value of $ 1.06 trillion in 2016 and a growth of 1.175 million by 2020 The largest proportion is the plastic packaging materials and non-laminated film and sheet manufacturing, accounting for about 20% of the total.
According to the current data analysis, no matter in China or in the world, the plastics market shows an increasing trend, and overseas plastic market conditions in other countries also show a good trend.
It is understood that the U.S. plastics market grew at an annual rate of 1.6%, slightly lower than China's 3%. Compared to China and the United States, India and Brazil are smaller but their growth rate is not small. According to statistics, 8% annual growth rate.
German plastic industry
For more than three years, there is only one direction for the plastics industry in German-speaking countries - to move forward and to continue this trend in the second half of 2017. Compared with the first half, most of the plastics industry companies have further improved their performance, and the work motors and investment are at full speed Operation, at the moment can not see the end of prosperity.
The result is a survey of 527 exhibitors based on the sector analyst 'KI (Plastics Information)' about the plastics boom of the second half of 2017. Since 2001, KI has been reporting to the plastics industry executives every six months Investigate business development and expectations, investment and employment.
Compared with the first half of 2017, 53% of the companies surveyed had an increase in performance, with only 40% expecting their performance to be stronger by mid-year, and only 9% of the companies' business declined in the second half of the year.
During the investigation, all companies surveyed, 44% of the company has hired additional staff, only 8% had layoffs since 2012, the plastics industry employment motor has been running at full speed. Technical shortage of workers is 2017 fly in the ointment. Over 50% of companies face challenges, but at the same time, further increasing confidence remains unchanged since the survey began in 2001, 46% of companies expect to increase investment in 2018, 51% concentrated in terms of capacity expansion, both The numbers have hit a new high.
Italy rubber machinery market
Prior to this, Amaplast said that in 2017 the Italian rubber and plastic machinery manufacturing industry is expected to achieve a growth of more than 5%. The annual output value of 4.5 billion euros, a new record, the highest before the record Back 10 years ago, in 2007 it was 4.25 billion euros.
In the first nine months of 2017, the import of rubber machinery and equipment increased by 12% from the same period of last year, while the export increased by 16% over the same period of 2009. The trade surplus has now exceeded 1.7 billion euros, an increase of 17 percentage points, while in the first 9 months, 70% of the products exported abroad, the majority achieved good sales performance.Core machinery, thermal molding machine exports increased 51%, extruder exports increased by 19%, the average export data above average.All the data show that the Italian rubber The positive trends in the import and export markets for processing machinery, equipment and molds continue unabated.
American Plastics (Machinery) Market
The major U.S. injection molding machine makers said their unit shipments are expected to be around 4,000 units in 2017. If so, it will be the third consecutive year that injection molding machine shipments will reach benchmark rates set by manufacturers.
In 2017, sales of machinery increased more than sales due to higher demand for large-tonnage machinery.
In addition, it is reported that the production of propylene in the United States is expected to be "blowout" by 2018. This is mainly due to the completion of a new propane dehydrogenation (PDH) plant and some new cracking units to be put into operation in succession, but downstream of propylene Derivatives production capacity remained stable.