The Global Plastics Industry Seminar USA is dedicated to the plastics industry statistics, graphs and analysis as well as future.
Topics
- Polyethylene
- Demand by type and future changes
- How will supply restructure in coming years
- End use application prospects
- Regional supply demand balances
- Overview of the Global Industry
- What happened in 2021
- Macro trends shaping demand and structure
- Regional market developments
- The impact of Covid-19 and what it means
- A western manufacturing renaissance?
- Economic outlook by region
- What will grow and what will decline?
- Virgin and recycled resin demand
- PVC
- PVC the unexpected revival?
- End use applications trends
- Construction trends
- Polypropylene
- Regional supply demand balances
- Application demand in a period of feedstock change
- The impact of polymer competition
- Changing regional pattern of demand
- PET
- How will recycling trends change PET fortunes
- Will the market keep growing in the face of the circular economy
- End use application by region
- Polystyrene and ABS
- Which end use applications have potential
- How do declining supply options impact the market
- Is there a future for styrene resins
- Biopolymers
- Future development and growth
- Demand for biopolymers by world region
- Future demand accelerating?
- Engineering Polymers
- How customer relations are changing
- Application development and growth
- Competition between polymers -what is changing
- Evolution of the compounding industry
- Size of the industry
- Strategies for success
- Future growth by region
- Additives for Plastics
- Supply impacts on business strategies
- Demand by region by additive type
- Value of the industry
- Customers and value chain evolution
- What drives innovation
- How sustainability will reshape the industry
- Brand and retail development
- What does the consumer really want
- Downstream plastics processing
- Is private equity changing the industry?
- Industry structure and global size by process
- New business models and challenges
- Dynamics within each region
- Concluding discussion
- The balance of recycling and virgin demand
- Strategies for success in a new world
- What changes will force an industry rethink
Who should Attend
Professionals in the plastics industry.
