Strong recovery anticipated for Japan's plastics processing machinery sector

摘要

Although shipments of processing machinery from Japanese vendors are still well short of their peak levels, 2010 seems likely to signal a welcome return to growth, with injection machine shipments forecast to grow by 39% year-on-year after having collapsed in 2009. Exports of injection molding machinery are also growing faster than shipments to domestic processors in Japan, but even in key markets such as China, demand is falling short of peak levels despite the overall machine market continuing to grow mere.