Rubber and Plastic

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 ...

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Recovery of construction industry over the long term to boost demand for building plastics...

Weak demand for building plastic materials as construction industry is set to stall...

Italy’s rubber and plastic exports to experience lethargic regional demand ...

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Spain’s rubber and plastic exports face lethargic regional demand due to the impact of COVID-19...

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Exports play an important role for the French rubber and plastic industry, with almost half of French rubber and plastic output being exported in 2019. Global trade disputes, however, as well as continuing uncertainty surrounding Brexit, negatively ...

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak significantly disrupted manufacturing and service sectors as well as the global transportation system. This briefing examines how manufacturing, services and transportation industries are impacted by the ...

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