Pub. Date: July 2007
Softcover: 500 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-130-2/978-1-59237-130-3
Price: $595.00

The second edition of the Rauch Rubber Guide provides industry structure and current market information about the $39 billion US rubber industry which faces intense inter-material competition and severe government regulation. The report contains a wealth of marketing and related technical information about the business.

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.
  
  

The Guide is divided into six chapters with 100+ tables and 30 figures within its 500 pages, providing data on information that is either widely scattered or difficult to find, therefore saving valuable time and money. It provides current market information and trends to 2008; industry economics and government regulations; company share data for each of the leading product categories; technology and raw material information; industry sources of further data; and unique profiles of 847 rubber manufacturers, a section which includes all known companies with rubber sales at or over $1 million annually.

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Pub. Date: July 2007
Softcover: 500 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-130-2/978-1-59237-130-3
Price: $595.00

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