Europe's pipe and profile firms respond to market pressures

摘要

The fortunes of the plastics pipes and profiles industry are closely tied to those of the construction industry, a sector which suffered badly in the worldwide economic downturn of 2008 and 2009. So it was no surprise, when European Plastics News launched this data report a year ago, that the leading European producers of pipes and profiles showed lower sales - the measure by which we place companies in the table over the page.