Injection moulding: up to 250
tonnes

  • Very little demand in the UK
  • UK demand declining as the majority
    of manufacture is carried out in the Far East
  • Majority of machines sold for export,
    however, demand weakened due to cheap Far East-manufactured
    machines

 

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Injection moulding: 250-500
tonnes

  • European demand remains slow for
    mid-size moulders, as it is still economical to ship components
    from the Far East
  • Demand remains steady from
    overseas

 

Injection moulding: over 500
tonnes

  • Demand remains steady, however slow,
    within the UK and Europe for high-capacity machines where
    manufacturing ongoing
  • Demand stronger for leading
    brands

 

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Blow moulding

  • Limited demand from UK and Europe as
    machines predominantly used for bottle production and there is
    adequate capacity in the European marketplace
  • Competition from low cost
    machines
    supplied from the Far East
  • Demand from Middle East and South
    America for older branded machines

 

Rotational
moulding

  • Limited demand in UK market place for
    such machines
  • Demand from overseas purchasers
  • Older machines becoming
    unsaleable

 

Extrusion (film and
packaging)

  • Limited demand for blown film
    lines
  • Plastic bag converting struggling to
    sell in the UK due to supermarkets and other retailers moving away
    from using and giving away free plastic bags

 

Extrusion
(sheet/profile/industrial)

  • Demand reducing for PVC-U extruders
    and converting for window frame manufacture with decline in UK
    house building sector
  • Recent demand for new extrusion lines
    form various industrial sectors

 

Shredding and
granulation

  • Increased demand for recycling
    equipment as appetite for recycling increases in line with the
    Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive
  • Demand also increasing from companies reprocessing and
    remoulding waste

Demand for the plastics sector – October 2009-July 2010