He further pointed out: “Plastic processors are still struggling on the “life and death line†and cannot communicate the pressure of rising raw material prices to downstream customers. Raw material producers are hindering the recovery of the plastics market, especially in the current economic environment, they lack At least business knowledge."
EuPC recently released the economic report of the plastics processing industry in 2009. When talking about this report, Danges sighed: “Europe’s new investment in plastics processing machinery is almost zero, and we can see that plastic processing in Europe as a whole. How hard the company has been through this year."
In addition, this report also shows that the credit insurance plan does not provide sufficient financial support for companies to take on new risks and achieve new growth. In order to stimulate the domestic economy, the British government has implemented a £5 billion trade credit insurance plan since May 1 this year. Companies that are trapped in the reduction of trade credit insurance can use this plan to purchase additional insurance. Danges said: "All this has made the prospects for economic recovery worrying."
According to this annual report, Spain and Italy were the most affected by the crisis. Plastics production fell by 26% and 27% respectively year-on-year. In Germany, the best performing country in the EU27, the output of plastic products has increased by 1.2% compared to the same period of last year, which is due to the fact that the country’s auto industry has begun to recover.
However, Danjisi said that the relative losses of the European plastics processing industry due to the crisis are not significant. The output of raw materials and equipment manufacturers decreased by 32% and 69% respectively year-on-year, while the output of plastic processors only fell by 25% year-on-year. It is worth mentioning that, since the beginning of 2009, the output of primary shape plastic actually increased by 10% compared with the same period of last year. This trend may indicate the recovery of the entire industry.
In addition, the performance of the plastic processing industry in different areas is also very different. For example, Danguis said that the output of consumer packaging has dropped by 15% year-on-year, while the industrial packaging sector has suffered heavy losses. He stressed: "Overall year, our business performance was at a mid-stream level in various industries, but it was being plagued by the unreasonable increase in raw material prices. Raw material suppliers refused to give us a margin of profit, making it difficult for us to have Breathing opportunities."
European plastic processors hard to breathe
In response to the recent rise in the price of plastic raw materials, Alexandre Dangis, executive director of EuPC, a Brussels-based plastics processing industry, summed up this year's overall business situation and reminded: “Although we have seen the dawn of recovery, The market is still very unstable and it is difficult for producers to deal with such price increases."