Pub. Date: February 2006
Softcover: 700 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-128-0/978-1-59237-128-0
Price: $595.00

The Rauch Guide to the US Plastics Industry provides industry structure and current market information about this $182 billion US industry. The report is divided into 6 major chapters with 130+ tables and 30 figures in its 700 pages.

The Guide provides information that is either widely scattered or difficult to find, saving valuable time and money. Users describe the Guide as the best single-source document on the entire US plastics industry. A perfect acquistion for producers, raw material suppliers, consultants, investment bankers, and others with a stake in this fast-changing, complex industry.

Information includes:

• Economics. After a brief introduction, this section provides data on industry shipments; long-term growth and forecasts; prices; company performance; employment, expenditures, and productivity; transportation and geographical patterns; packaging; foreign trade; and government regulations.
  
  
• Technology and raw materials. These chapters provide market, technical, and raw material information for chemicals, equipment and related materials, including market size and leading suppliers, prices, end uses, and trends.
  
  
• Products and markets. These sections provide information for each major industry product, including market size and historical trends, leading suppliers, five-year forecasts, industry structure, and major end uses.
  
  
• Industry activities, organizations and sources of information. This chapter lists meetings, exhibits, and trade shows, sources of statistical information, trade associations, technical and professional societies, and trade and technical periodicals.
  
  
• Directory. This section profiles major industry companies, both public and private. Generally several hundered companies are analyzed. Information includes web address, estimated total and domestic sales, product description, and recent mergers and acquisitions.
  
  
• Appendixes. This section provides a cross-reference of suppliers, subsidiaries and divisions.
  
  

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Pub. Date: February 2006
Softcover: 700 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-128-0/978-1-59237-128-0
Price: $595.00

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