Plastics industry holds its own in H1 2012 market turbulence / Market players expect business to slacken in second half year/ Raw materials and Eurocrisis continue to bite / Spending budgets slashed / KI Dialog poll

摘要

Business of players in the German-speaking European plastics industry remained relatively stable in the first half of 2012, the semi-annual readership survey "KI Dialog" of PIE's sister publication Kunststoff Information (Bad Homburg / Germany; www.kiweb.de) indicates. But responses from the 681 participating readers - a new record - portend that the virtu- ally uninterrupted growth seen since mid-2009 will lose momentum in the second half.