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TURKEY
Plastics association proposes solutions to surging resin prices / Domestic producers should sell to local processors / Calls for pausing import duties
10.02.2021
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY TURKEY
Plastics use in vehicles seen down 15% in 2020 / Automobile production forecast 14% lower / Pandemic said to have cost domestic car parts industry at least USD 5 bn
28.01.2021
TURKEY
Styrenics import prices off sharply in Jan-Aug / Export prices falter / Imports to grow 7% by volume in 2020 / Domestic demand to ease / Production to decline
13.11.2020
TURKEY
PVC imports by weight seen up over 9% in 2020 / Domestic production volume set to drop more than 10% / PVC foreign trade deficit forecast to rise
22.10.2020
TURKEY
PE and PP import dependency to reduce by 2023 as new capacities start up / Demand and import volumes forecast to rise in 2020 / Foreign trade deficit set to widen
28.09.2020
WHITE GOODS TURKEY
Difficult time due to Covid-19 / Sales fall 9% in H1 on weak European demand / Leading supplier country
18.09.2020
TURKEY
Plastics industry posts fall in demand and output in first half / Contraction predicted for 2020 / Domestic market hindered by taxes and low-value products
11.09.2020
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY TURKEY
Car sector sees severe coronavirus-losses in production and foreign trade / Supply chain problems / VW plans for new plant halted
24.07.2020
TURKEY
Plastic packaging demand stable in 2019 / Output lifts 2% and exports rise 7%
20.07.2020
TURKEY
Pagev asks for plastics industry incentives due to Covid-19 impacts / Downturn in construction, automotive and white goods sectors / Medical supply production ramps up
15.05.2020
TURKEY
Government introduces Covid-19 measures to help out businesses / Pagev sees lack of including plastics sector as major deficiency / Polyolefin spot prices trending sharply downward
02.04.2020
TURKEY
Plastics processing volumes rising / Lower raw material prices depress industry sales / Expansion of exports / Pagev criticises low added value and volume of raw material imports
24.02.2020
TURKEY
Output and exports of electrical and electronic plastics climb during 2014-2018 / Government aims to boost domestic E&E industry
11.02.2020
TURKEY
Agricultural plastics output and demand set to slip in 2019 / Reversal of past five years / Foreign trade continues to climb
22.01.2020
TURKEY
Plastic compounds production and demand expected to fall in 2019 / Foreign trade to dip and widen deficit / Polypropylene holds largest market share
31.10.2019
TURKEY
Country's reliance on PS and EPS imports to grow / Consumption continues to outpace domestic output
25.09.2019
MANAGEMENT
Payment default risks rise in Turkey / Construction industry particularly risky / Uncertainties threaten plastics sector / Atradius report
09.09.2019
TURKEY
Plastics imports decline in first half of 2019 / Domestic consumption of commodities and end products hits rock bottom / Exports benefit from weak Turkish lira
28.08.2019
GREECE
"Plastic needs to be part of the solution and not part of the problem" / Vassilis Gounaris is next president of AHPI / Consumer perceptions need changing
08.08.2019
PLASTIC PACKAGING TURKEY
Economic recession hits plastic packaging materials in Q1 2019 and full-year 2018 / Demand, output and imports fall but exports up
16.07.2019
TURKEY
Engineering plastics consumption and imports to decline on economic woes
04.07.2019
TURKEY
Demand and foreign trade for polyolefins decline in 2018 / New capacities planned by 2023 to reduce reliance on imports
03.06.2019
TURKEY
PVC consumption heavily reliant on imports / Domestic production from sole plant in Aliaga
30.04.2019
TURKEY
Spot prices rise in first quarter / Plastics imports increase at the start of 2019 / Currency weakness unsettles markets / Subdued polymers consumption in 2018 due to recession
18.04.2019
TURKEY
Plastic products sector hit by economic turmoil in 2018 / Production, consumption and imports decline / Urgent need to reduce dependency on imported feedstocks
01.04.2019
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