The prospect of the global plastic industry mapped by the European press market

Rubber and plastics machinery processing companies accounted for 27.3% of total European manufacturers. According to Eourmap, a representative of the machinery industry representative organization, in 2010, Europe's total rubber and plastic production reached 978 million euros. It is predicted that the growth rate in 2011 will reach 10%. This means that this year's production volume needs to reach 1.080 billion euros, close to the 2008 data.

In 2010, the total volume of plastics machinery exports in Europe reached 703 million euros, an increase of 23.9% over the same period in 2009. In 2009, the global plastics market was still shrouded in the shadow of the financial turmoil. The global economic recession caused the plastics market to plummet. With the gradual recovery of the market in 2010, a large percentage of the increase is completely expected.

Euromap’s three-year conference took place in Munich from October 13 to October 14. Euromap announced a series of encouraging statistics.

Euromap expects that global new order revenue will fall slightly from 2012, but sales will remain stable. For the reason, Euromap believes that a backlog of favorable market orders has been established. In 2012, it has not been able to reach a long enough time to allow companies to complete orders.

Euromap Chairman Bernhard Merki explained in his speech: “From 2008 to 2011, companies have completed a roller coaster-type curve activity in seeking new incoming materials for production.”

China has been the main driver for demand in 2010 and 2011 and is a major power machinery manufacturer. According to Euromap's statistical analysis, the world's core plastics machinery production value reached 2.355 billion euros in 2010. The proportion of Chinese companies has rapidly increased from 23.5% in 2009 to 29.3%.

In addition, Euromap also makes a statistical survey of the data that countries share in the world. The survey shows that in 2010, the amount of time shared by the whole country fell from 45.4% to 41.9%. The U.S. share also fell from 6.5% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2010.

However, it is worth mentioning that Japan’s machinery manufacturers have benefited from the growth of Asia in 2010 and have been astounding in the country’s shared survey of the world’s surveys, and have made impressive achievements. Japan’s global sales share rose from 4.1% in 2009 to 5.4% in 2010, which is the same as in the United States.

Germany relied on a large number of exports to the Chinese market, maintaining a 28.4% share, basically the same as in previous years.

China, relying on its own development, has already experienced growth in demand. In 2010, China’s market share accounted for 27.9%, while in 2009 it was only 25%. Its growth rate is amazing. Among them, for exports to Japan and Taiwan up to 12%, an increase of nearly one-half from 8.5% in 2009. Exports to Korea also increased by 0.2 percentage points to 5.9% on a 5.7% basis in 2009.

At the same time, China has also rapidly increased its ranking in world machinery exports, surpassing Italy to become the third largest exporter of the world in 2010.

Euromap's statistics show that in 2010 the world's core plastics machinery exports reached 1.4 billion euros. Germany is still the world’s number one exporter with a 23.7% market share. Although it has fallen compared with 24.6% in 2009, it still cannot change its status as the world's largest exporter. Second, Japan, China, and Italy also followed the rankings of 13.1% (10.8 in 2009), 10.6% (9.1%), and 9.6% (11.3%) respectively.

It is not difficult to find in these data that the Asian countries’ growth is very encouraging. Although the global market has been hit by the financial turmoil since 2008. However, Asian countries such as Japan and China could seize the opportunity in the financial crisis and opened up a path suitable for Asian development.

At the conference, Luciano Anceschi, the new vice president of Euromap, said that European plastics machinery manufacturers have begun to increase their investment in energy-saving technologies. This is a truly more sustainable global trend. Saving energy and protecting resources have played an increasingly important role. Not only in Europe, manufacturers around the world have reached consensus.

In addition, Euroma announced that it has approved the European Commission’s agenda for energy conservation this month and will cut European energy consumption by 20% by 2020.