Detailed 2011 figures now published / Volume sales grow faster than sales by value / Margins pressured

摘要

German plastics packaging manufacturers in 2011 grew their sales by 9.4% year-on-year to EUR 13.2 bn, the final 2011 tally from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis, Wiesbaden; www.destatis.de) shows. The numbers confirm the provision al estimate the German plastics packaging industry association Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen (IK, Bac Homburg; www.kunststoffverpackungen.de) issued in February. At the same time, the volume of plastics processed in Germany for packaging climbed by 5.2% to 4.3m t, IK says.