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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…
The briefing examines how the rubber and plastic industry is performing globally and in the largest countries in terms of output. The report provides data for production, market size, imports, exports, industry costs, industry profitability and…
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 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…
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…
With production of USD967 billion, Asia Pacific was the largest rubber and plastic producer globally in 2020. Regional production of rubber and plastic products remains highly concentrated in China, Japan and South Korea. Over 2021-2030, Asia Pacific…
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