MRC specialists regard technology as the basic polymer processing method that directly affects its consumption volumes. For example, hot-shaping, bags cutting or re-granulation can also be regarded as polymers processing technologies; however, they affect polymers consumption only indirectly; therefore, they were not included into the general production capacities analysis. Conclusions on consumption of, for example, PP used for thermoforming are made on the basis of capacity of the s-called basic PP processing, i.e. on the basis of sheet extrusion technology.

List of all 25 technologies analyzed in our polymer market Reports:

• foaming
• extrusion blow molding
• cable extrusion
• compounding
• injection molding
• fibers/filaments
• coating
• extrusion coating
• sheet extrusion
• film extrusion
• pipe extrusion
• profile extrusion
• tube extrusion
• gas processing
• petrochemistry
• bags cutting
• lamination
• cable sheathing
• printing
• braiding
• re-granulation
• thermoforming
• other extrusion
• roofing materials
• roto-forming