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Trends in the Consumption of PVC

The market share held by PVC has a crucial effect on the sales of heat stabilisers, plasticisers and lubricants, and is fairly important for fillers as well. At present the demand situation looks healthy for rigid PVC, but growth remains poor in Europe for flexible grades. [Pg.146]

Construction remains easily the dominant market for PVC, using approximately two-thirds of all the material sold. In Western Europe, the four leading PVC market sectors have been estimated as - pipe 21.9% of polymer sold, profiles 18.5%, wire and cable insulation 10.7% and flooring 10.1%. They were followed by flexible and rigid film at 7% each, with all other categories around 5% or less. [Pg.146]

The United States has a large pipe market and its PVC sales have been healthier than Europe s in recent years, although again flexible PVC sales have not grown rapidly. The position of PVC in the Ameriean wire and cable market has been eroded by polyolefins. [Pg.146]

China s consumption of PVC trebled between 1995 and 2001 and is still increasing rapidly. It is now the second largest PVC market after the USA, and local production capacity is being expanded as well as consumption. Even flexible PVC sales are growing rapidly there. [Pg.146]

The PVC industry in Japan has experienced a serious decline in domestic demand for several years, with significant replacement of PVC by polyethylene. The PVC producers have been forced to rationalise more than once in the past ten years, and the remaining producers are heavily dependent on exports to China, which is gradually building its own capacity with Western, Korean and Japanese help. Korea saw a fall in PVC demand of about 8% in 2003, linked to a wider economic downturn. [Pg.146]


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