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If "the new normal economy" bears any resemblance to "the old normal economy" of the 2001-2008 period, regional sales of thermoformed packaging products should grow by 3.5% in volume terms and 5.5% in value terms out to 2014. Much will depend on the pace of recovery in the demand for packaging intermediate and final products in non-food-related markets – appliances, aftermarket automotive products, building and construction, housewares, medical products, and so on.

This directory provides detailed profiles of 371 regional rotomolders operating 438 plants in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico.

After registering steady sales growth of roughly 6% over the first 8 years of the decade the value of output from North American companies specializing in thermoformed packaging products fell back 2.4% in 2009. Here in early 2010 growth has resumed.

One of the features of this report is an analysis of operations across the industry – for example, average sales accruing to captive, custom and proprietary profile extrusion operations, the number of extrusion lines and employees per plant, the number of employees per extrusion line – that processors can utilize to benchmark their own operations.

The consensus among the processors is that there are significant technological changes in plastic sheet offerings, and there are ongoing innovations in thermoformed part decoration.

Despite the welcome, albeit temporary, respite in the pricing of crude oil and natural gas due to the unfolding global financial crisis and economic slowdown, composite processors – in common with all other regional plastics processors – have to continue adapting to the new economics of energy.

After decades of rapid growth over the course of the past half-century the North American rotational molding business demonstrates all the classic signs of maturity.

This report compares regional plastics processors with respect to globalization and its implications for their domestic and foreign operations.

This report distills data and insights gathered from a telephone-based survey of over 100 companies involved on the supply and demand sides of the compression molding business.

The level of industry concentration has always been high in industrial blow molding, and events of the past few years have raised this measure even higher.

Thermoplastic pipe is by far the largest component of this business, accounting for 9.4 billion lbs. of plastic material (96% of total plastic pipe output in volume terms) and $9.7 billion in annual sales (92% of total plastic pipe output in value terms).

This report presents the most up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of the past, current and likely future state of the regional bottle blow molding business.

PCRS has researched and published studies of the North American industrial thermoforming business in 1995, 1998, 2001 and 2004.

The concept of wood/plastic composite material has a long history in plastics processing, yet it is only in the past few years that its potential in decking, fencing, railing and other building and non-building products has been addressed.