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Results 9th PIE Readers’ Survey
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences14 of the 290 responses are without information on the region in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 54 (18,6 %) | 122 (42,1 %) | 114 (39,3 %) |
| Benelux | 3 (11,5 %) | 7 (26,9 %) | 16 (61,5 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 10 (30,3 %) | 14 (42,4 %) | 9 (27,3 %) |
| France | 4 (21,1 %) | 6 (31,6 %) | 9 (47,4 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 6 (30,0 %) | 5 (25,0 %) | 9 (45,0 %) |
| Italy | 3 (10,0 %) | 4 (13,3 %) | 23 (76,7 %) |
| Nordic region | 5 (10,9 %) | 28 (60,9 %) | 13 (28,3 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 5 (23,8 %) | 9 (42,9 %) | 7 (33,3 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 3 (11,1 %) | 16 (59,3 %) | 8 (29,6 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 8 (25,8 %) | 16 (51,6 %) | 7 (22,6 %) |
| Other | 4 (17,4 %) | 12 (52,2 %) | 7 (30,4 %) |
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences7 of the 290 responses are without information on the industry sector in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 54 (18,6 %) | 122 (42,1 %) | 114 (39,3 %) |
| Plastics/chemicals production | 5 (11,4 %) | 15 (34,1 %) | 24 (54,5 %) |
| Raw materials distribution/trading/compounding | 1 (2,8 %) | 21 (58,3 %) | 14 (38,9 %) |
| Plastics machinery/equipment/tools | 2 (50,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| Plastics processing | 26 (25,2 %) | 40 (38,8 %) | 37 (35,9 %) |
| Plastic products trade | 4 (14,8 %) | 17 (63,0 %) | 6 (22,2 %) |
| Plastics recycling/recovery | 1 (6,7 %) | 4 (26,7 %) | 10 (66,7 %) |
| Brand owner | 3 (21,4 %) | 6 (42,9 %) | 5 (35,7 %) |
| Other sector | 11 (27,5 %) | 13 (32,5 %) | 16 (40,0 %) |
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences)Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 54 (18,6 %) | 122 (42,1 %) | 114 (39,3 %) |
| <20 | 2 (5,4 %) | 24 (64,9 %) | 11 (29,7 %) |
| 21-100 | 16 (18,4 %) | 45 (51,7 %) | 26 (29,9 %) |
| 101-500 | 13 (15,9 %) | 27 (32,9 %) | 42 (51,2 %) |
| >500 | 23 (27,4 %) | 26 (31,0 %) | 35 (41,7 %) |
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences6 of the 290 responses are without information on the export quota in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 54 (18,6 %) | 122 (42,1 %) | 114 (39,3 %) |
| <25% | 13 (12,9 %) | 58 (57,4 %) | 30 (29,7 %) |
| 25-50% | 8 (13,6 %) | 26 (44,1 %) | 25 (42,4 %) |
| >50-75% | 14 (24,1 %) | 21 (36,2 %) | 23 (39,7 %) |
| >75% | 18 (27,3 %) | 14 (21,2 %) | 34 (51,5 %) |
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 103 responses are without information on the region in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 26 (25,2 %) | 40 (38,8 %) | 37 (35,9 %) |
| Benelux | 0 (0,0 %) | 2 (20,0 %) | 8 (80,0 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 4 (28,6 %) | 7 (50,0 %) | 3 (21,4 %) |
| France | 4 (57,1 %) | 2 (28,6 %) | 1 (14,3 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 1 (33,3 %) | 1 (33,3 %) | 1 (33,3 %) |
| Italy | 3 (23,1 %) | 3 (23,1 %) | 7 (53,8 %) |
| Nordic region | 2 (11,8 %) | 10 (58,8 %) | 5 (29,4 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 3 (23,1 %) | 5 (38,5 %) | 5 (38,5 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 2 (20,0 %) | 4 (40,0 %) | 4 (40,0 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 4 (36,4 %) | 4 (36,4 %) | 3 (27,3 %) |
| Other | 2 (50,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences)Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 26 (25,2 %) | 40 (38,8 %) | 37 (35,9 %) |
| Packaging | 8 (33,3 %) | 8 (33,3 %) | 8 (33,3 %) |
| Automotive | 9 (33,3 %) | 10 (37,0 %) | 8 (29,6 %) |
| E&E | 2 (33,3 %) | 1 (16,7 %) | 3 (50,0 %) |
| Construction materials | 3 (14,3 %) | 9 (42,9 %) | 9 (42,9 %) |
| Consumer goods | 4 (28,6 %) | 7 (50,0 %) | 3 (21,4 %) |
| Medical | 0 (0,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) |
| Other sector | 0 (0,0 %) | 3 (42,9 %) | 4 (57,1 %) |
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences)Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 26 (25,2 %) | 40 (38,8 %) | 37 (35,9 %) |
| <20 | 0 (0,0 %) | 5 (71,4 %) | 2 (28,6 %) |
| 21-100 | 7 (22,6 %) | 15 (48,4 %) | 9 (29,0 %) |
| 101-500 | 6 (17,1 %) | 11 (31,4 %) | 18 (51,4 %) |
| >500 | 13 (43,3 %) | 9 (30,0 %) | 8 (26,7 %) |
1. How would you rate your company’s business performance in the second half of 2022, compared to the first half of 2022?
c) Export to the EU27 + CH, NO, UK
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences4 of the 103 responses are without information on the export quota in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 26 (25,2 %) | 40 (38,8 %) | 37 (35,9 %) |
| <25% | 6 (20,0 %) | 16 (53,3 %) | 8 (26,7 %) |
| 25-50% | 5 (27,8 %) | 6 (33,3 %) | 7 (38,9 %) |
| >50-75% | 8 (30,8 %) | 12 (46,2 %) | 6 (23,1 %) |
| >75% | 6 (24,0 %) | 5 (20,0 %) | 14 (56,0 %) |