Plastics in India 2007

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Study Background
Principia Partners announces a comprehensive market study assessing the plastics industry in India. The study is designed to help global plastics producers and processors better understand and assess their prospects for participation in this rapidly emerging economy.

The study covers all key plastics, and will be exceptionally useful for determining if, where and when to make a strategic business move in India. The study will distinguish between products for local consumption and those for export.

For plastics producers worldwide, India represents a range of highly promising new opportunities for growth. The fragmented plastics industry in this country is beginning to consolidate, governmental regulations and trade barriers are coming down due to India's recent admission to the WTO, and some large North American plastics manufacturers have already begun doing business there.

With a population over one billion, 40% under age 15, opportunities for plastics producers in India include near-term rapid growth in the nation's internal consumption of plastic products. The Indian middle class is 300 million and rising, and the annual GDP growth rate is 8%.

In addition, the national goal of becoming a manufacturing hub similar to China may present opportunities for plastics producers in all parts of the value chain. Growth in the plastics industry in India is expected to average double-digit rates within five years.

Who Should Subscribe?
This 350 page report will be a highly valuable reference resource for industry participants requiring a current understanding of the market for plastics in the rapidly emerging economy in India. These industry participants include:

• Resin suppliers
• Compounders
• Plastics processors
• Additive suppliers
• Equipment manufacturers
• OEMs

Key Points of Interest

• Per capita consumption of plastic products in India will expand rapidly in the near term as economy advances at 8% GDP growth and population tops 1.1 billion.
• India recently joined the WTO. Government regulations are easing, making investment by Western companies more attractive.
• The fragmented Indian plastics industry has begun to consolidate, a precursor to rapid overall expansion.
• India has set a national goal of emulating China as a manufacturing and export center, and has begun to make infrastructure improvements to support development.
• India boasts an increasingly well educated, English-speaking workforce that will be a resource for Western investors.

Plastic Categories in Focus

• Commodity Thermoplastics
• Intermediate Thermoplastics
• Engineering Thermoplastics
• High Temperature Thermoplastics
• Rigid Thermosets
• Elastomers
• Thermoplastic Elastomers

(See brochure for specific plastic types: i.e., ABS, Acrylics, etc)

Processes

• Blow molding
• Blown film
• Compounding
• Extrusion coating
• Fibers and monofilaments
• Injection molded
• Molded and extruded foams
• Nonwovens
• Profile extrusion
• Rotomolding
• Sheet extrusion
• Thermoforming
• Other

End-Use Markets

• Appliances
• Automotive
• Building & construction
• Consumer
• Electrical / electronics
• Industrial
• Medical
• Packaging
• Transportation
• Wire & cable

Why Principia?
Producing the Plastics in India study requires special expertise. Principia has a strong history serving Fortune 500 companies participating across the plastics industry value chain. This cumulative plastics industry knowledge, which spans products, markets and participants, is essential to facilitate the program's research and analysis.

Principia works closely with its strategic partner in Chennai, India, who provides access to a wide range of local assets to develop the interview data and analysis. As always, Principia market studies are based on primary research, supplemented with secondary data, and provide insights and analysis based on a global perspective of the plastics industry.