Plastics Machinery Shipments Up 4.1% in Q3 of 2018

摘要

THE plastics machinery shipments in North America continued to increase in the third quarter according to the statistics compiled and reported by the Plastics Industry Association's(PLASTICS)Committee on Equipment Statistics(CES). The preliminary estimate of shipments of primary plastics equipment(injection molding and extrusion)for reporting companies totaled $349.4 million in the third quarter. This was a 4.1-percent increase from the $335.5 million(revised)second-quarter shipment. Injection molding shipments in the second quarter were higher than previously thought. Year over year,shipments grew 5.6 percent.