TPi January 2015

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Polypropylene and plastic pipe industry forecasts

supply and drainage, building water supply and drainage and other fields act as the downstream of China’s plastic pipe industry. In 2013 the downstream demand accounted for 69.8 per cent of China’s total demand for plastic pipes. Propelled by the construction of Chinese municipal underground pipe networks and drinking water facilities, the share of the downstream demand is expected to rise to 75.4 per cent in 2017. There are numerous small-sized Chinese plastic pipe enterprises. 300 companies achieve annual capacity of more than 10,000 tons, while only 15 have annual capacity of 200,000 tons. The complete reports are available for purchase from RnR Market Research’s website.

2014-2019 market development of the industry, and analyses upstream raw materials, downstream clients and current market dynamics. ‘The China Plastic Pipe Industry Report, 2014-2017’ says that the country has become the world’s largest producer and consumer of plastic pipes. In 2013, China’s plastic pipe output and demand reached 12.1mn tons and 11.117mn tons respectively, representing a respective year-on-year increase of 10 per cent and 7.1 per cent. The output of PVC pipes is higher than that of other plastic pipe varieties in China, followed by the output of PE pipes and PP pipes. In 2013 China’s PVC pipe output hit 6.59mn tons, accounting for 54.5 per cent of China’s total plastic pipe output, while the output of PE pipes and PP pipes shared 40.5 per cent. Municipal water

RnR Market Research has added the latest reports on the polypropylene pipe market and the plastic pipe industry for global and China regions to its store. ‘Market Research Report on Global and Chinese PP Pipe Industry, 2009-2019’ is an in-depth market survey on the global and Chinese PP pipe industry. The report reviews the basic information of PP pipe including its classification, application and manufacturing technology. The report then explores global and China’s top manufacturers of PP pipe, listing their product specification, capacity, production value, market share, etc. The report further analyses the market of PP pipe by calculation of the main economic parameters of each company. The breakdown data of the PP pipe market is presented by company, by country and by application. The report also estimates

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