Author: F. Pardos
Published: 2004
Number of Pages: 182 (This is a soft-backed Market Report.)

Film production accounts for around 25% of all plastics used worldwide and is a massive market sector. This Rapra Market Report provides an overview of this important and rapidly developing industry. The report considers the wide range of film materials including polyethylene, polypropylene, PVC, PS and PET, describing their main characteristics (such as toughness, sealability, barrier performance, strength and stiffness) and commenting on the industry consumption of each. The main focus of this report is on the dominant packaging sector, but developments in other sectors are included. The report also analyses the industry supply structure and strategy including profiles of and comments on about 2000 plastics film companies. The area covered in the report is worldwide, but with emphasis on Europe. This market report provides a snapshot of the industry and its future prospects.

Author / Editor:

Françoise Pardos was trained as an economist, with a MA from Berkeley, University of California, and a doctorate ("docteur ès-Sciences Economiques") from Paris.After five years as market research analyst at Kaiser Aluminum, in California, and two years at SEMA, an industrial consultant in Paris, she created Pardos Marketing, an industrial market research consultancy specializing in plastics and plastics applications. Over 200 studies have been completed in the last fifteen years. The main topics of recent studies cover new developments in plastics packaging, barrier materials, plastics applications in automotive, electrical, building and medical industries, high performance plastics, potential developments of new materials, with emphasis on European, African and Indian markets.

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