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In the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, with stumbling economies and plummeting business confidence, India’s rubber and plastic producers experienced weak demand from the country’s key markets – the US and Germany. Both countries, which…
In the face of the global COVID-19 pandemic, economic contractions and plummeting business confidence within the domestic and foreign markets, Brazil’s rubber and plastic manufacturers were subject to weak external demand and turnover in 2020. The…
In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic and related containment measures resulted in Russia’s poor economic performance compared to the year before, leaving the domestic rubber and plastic industry in a weak state as well. In the first half of 2020, as the…
With slightly more than a third of total production orientated towards external markets, exports, especially to the US, continued to play a major role for Canada’s rubber and plastic manufacturers in 2020. However, due to the rapid spread and…
Recovery of construction industry over the long term to boost demand for building plastics