Films and flexible packaging: Global market report

摘要

ACCORDING to a recently published study by Applied Market Information Ltd, one of the key factors that will significantly impact the growth of PE film usage as well as the level of global trade in finished film will be the continued shale gas developments in the U.S. AMI's study says that this will lead to major reduction in the cost of PE resin in addition to reducing the energy cost of subsequent film production. It predicts a high probability that North America will have a polymer cost base on a par with that in the Middle East, leading to PE film exports from North America overtaking those of the Middle East.