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2010-10-05 00:00:00
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The Injection molding industry in Central and Eastern Europe tends to be dominated by small to medium enterprises (SME) which make up over 85% of the market with in the Injection molding industry, there are over 1600 companies across CEE who use more then 100 tones of resins per year. The Packaging and the technical parts manufacturing industry tend to be the leading users IM applications.
The distribution of the applications of their products is shown in the next table:
Application Number of companies Share %
Household 367 23
Food packaging 275 17
Automobile 246 15
Other packaging 215 13
Building, construction 140 9
E+E applications 129 8
Engineering, manufacturing 111 7
Agro 49 3
Others 78 5
Total 1607 100
*Applications of injection molded products in CEE*
Packaging is the leading industry with 30% and the food packaging industry dominates this sector and this industry will only get stronger as Central and Eastern European food manufactures look to push there products and look for more market share in Western European counties. The industry in CEE that is the 2nd largest user of Injection moulded products is the household and consumer mass product market which represents 25% of the IM market share.
The Automobile Industry after seeing a downturn between 2007 and 2009 looks to be the fastest growing industry for 2010 as the CEE automobile industry recovers strongly for 2010 and could become the leading industry for IM products by 2015. The Automobile industry, Electronics + IT industries and the General Engineering industries represents over 30% of the market for users of injection moulded producers. The Construction industry is recovering well in 2010 after contracting over the last 2/3 years and there is particular growth in Demand for profiles is mainly being fuelled by the desire for energy savings and the demand is mainly for standard white windows.
There are almost over 3400 injection molder companies in Central and Eastern Europe or about 75% of them use mass polymers and 25% engineering resins and technical compounds. The distribution of IM companies by size and their share in the total output is illustrated in the next table:
Demand interval Number of companies Share in number Share in volume
t/year % %
0-10 502 15 0
10-100 1306 38 3,5
100-500 898 26 12,5
500-1000 329 9.5 10
1-2000 199 5.75 12
2-5000 109 3.25 19
5-10000 48 1.5 15
>10000 28 1 28
Total 3419 100 100
Injection moulding companies in Central and Eastern Europe by size
Just over half (53%) of Injection moulders are SME and micro size companies which means they manufacture Injection moulded products totaling below 100 tones. SME and Micro companies trend to use Injection moulding machines of between 10 to 20 years therefore there ability to produce technical moulded products of high quality is limited, they tend to manufacture mass products. There is a lot of investment in the SME sector so there is an increase in IM companies who can produce technical parts made of resins and this trend will continue.
There is a reasonable number (41.25%) of medium Enterprises (ME) size injection moulders who use 100-2000 tons of polymers in a year and they represent a total of 12.5% of the market by produced in volume. These companies tend to have modern molding machines and auxiliary equipment and at least 80% have equipment purchased with in the last 3 years. Due to there modern molding machines and auxiliary equipment they tend to serve the higher end of the market therefore producing moulded products for the automobile and engineering industries. The medium sized moulders produce 34.5% of molded products.
There are 5.75% of Injection bigger moulding companies in the Central and Eastern European region who produce products using more then 5000 tones of resin in a year. Even though there market share is only 5.75% by volume they represent 62% of the market in terms of the Injection molded products they produce. These companies produce a full range of technical and mass market products and the majority of there Injection moulding technology is less 3 years old. Most of them are producing PP, PE and PS mass products. Within that group the real big companies (over 10 Kt/ year) represent only 19% in number but 28% in volume. Most of the big companies are producers of PET performs.
When comparing the size distribution of injection molder companies and plastic converters in general we see that small and medium sized companies tend to focus on the manufacture of injection moulding and the larger companies are higher among film producing and extruding processes.
Injection Molding is one of the most important plastic processing methods and in terms of different processes IM is the lead process in terms of the number of companies who use the Injection Molding process but 3rd place according to volume produced. The two lead processes are extrusion and film production.
The Packaging industry (made of PP and PET) is one of the key drivers of the Injection Moulding industry and the technical parts (based on PP-compounds and engineering resins) will probably overtake to be the lead industry by 2015.
The CEE region is not only seeing improvements in quantity but in quality as well , The sophisticated IM methods, like Gas- or Water assisted IM, 2-component IM, In-mould labeling, IM of thin wall and foamed products is already used nowadays by many converter companies in the CEE, too. The rate of this sophisticated IM methods in comparison to conventional IM will increase very much during the next years.
By the end of the 2010 the Injection mouding industry in CEE will of recovered to its 2006/2007 levels (pre global economic downturn) and from 2011 to 2015 CeeIndustrial expects an average growth of 3 to 4% each year with in the Injection Moulding Industry. |
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