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Plastic Resin & Synthetic Fiber Manufacturing
First Research, April 2012, Pages: 10
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Executive Summary
Brief Excerpt from Industry Overview Chapter:
The US plastic resins and synthetic fibers manufacturing industry consists of about 1,000 companies with combined annual revenue of about $100 billion. Major companies include Dow Chemical, DuPont, Chevron Phillips, Huntsman, Celanese, and Momentive Specialty Chemicals. The US industry is highly concentrated: the top 50 companies have more than 80 percent of the market.
The global plastic resin and synthetic fiber industry generates annual revenue of roughly $500 billion. Major companies based outside the US include BASF (Germany), Sumitomo Chemical (Japan), LG Chem (South Korea), Nan Ya Plastics (Taiwan), Royal DSM (The Netherlands), and Alfa (Mexico).
COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
Demand depends on the level of manufacture of plastic products, which is closely linked to US industrial production. Because resin manufacture is a high-volume process, the profitability of individual companies depends on operating efficiencies. Large companies have significant economies of scale in production and in the purchase of raw materials. Smaller companies can compete effectively by producing specialty resins and fibers. Many smaller companies buy commodity resins from large producers and rework them into specialty compounds. The industry is capital-intensive: average annual revenue is about $1 million per worker.
PRODUCTS, OPERATIONS & TECHNOLOGY
The two basic types of plastic resins are thermosets, which harden permanently after they are cured by heat, and thermoplastics, which may be hard or soft after being cured, but can be remelted or dissolved in a solvent. Thermosets include acrylics, amino resins, epoxy, unsaturated polyesters, polyurethanes and vinyl...
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