This AMI best seller is the best value market research report you will find on the European plastics industry. Based on AMI’s ongoing consultancy work in the plastics industry as well AMI’s own unique databases on plastics markets and processors it provides a complete, easy to use overview of the trends and developments in the European thermoplastics industry. The report covers:

• Commodity polymers: Supply/demand, capacities and end use analysis for LL/LDPE, HDPE, polypropylene, PVC, Polystyrene and PET.
• Engineering polymers: Supply/demand, capacities and end use analysis for ABS/SAN, PBT, polyamide, polycarbonate, acrylics and acetals.
• Thermoplastic compounds: Trends in production and industry structure .
• Plastics processing: Developments in the use of polymers within film, pipe and profile and sheet extrusion, injection and blow moulding.
• Countries: Separate sections look at the market for plastics in France, Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands, Nordic countries, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Hungary, Czech and Slovak Republics, Romania, Bulgaria, Baltic states and Slovenia.

Thoroughly and independently researched, this up to date report provides data from 2003 through to 2008 with forecasts for 2009 and trends up to 2013. .