American Plastics machinery shipments jumped 20% Y/Y in Q3 of 2017

摘要

NORTH AMERICAN shipments of primary plastics machinery posted a strong year-over-year increase in Q3 of 2017 according to statistics compiled and reported by the Plastics Industry Association's (PLASTICS) Committee on Equipment Statistics (CES). This marked the second consecutive quarterly Y/Y increase in this data. The preliminary estimate for shipments of primary plastics equipment (injection molding, extrusion, and blow molding equipment) for reporting companies totaled $350.8 million in the third quarter. This was 20.4 percent higher than the total of $291.3 million in Q3 of 2016, and it was 4.0 percent stronger than the revised $337.2 million from Q2 of 2017. This Y/Y gain in Q2 followed a revised 6.5 percent Y/Y increase in the quarterly total from Q2.