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Results 9th PIE Readers’ Survey
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences16 of the 295 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 | 98 (33,2 %) | 128 (43,4 %) | 69 (23,4 %) |
| Benelux | 11 (42,3 %) | 12 (46,2 %) | 3 (11,5 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 11 (33,3 %) | 11 (33,3 %) | 11 (33,3 %) |
| France | 8 (42,1 %) | 9 (47,4 %) | 2 (10,5 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 6 (30,0 %) | 10 (50,0 %) | 4 (20,0 %) |
| Italy | 6 (19,4 %) | 17 (54,8 %) | 8 (25,8 %) |
| Nordic region | 10 (21,3 %) | 23 (48,9 %) | 14 (29,8 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 4 (19,0 %) | 11 (52,4 %) | 6 (28,6 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 15 (53,6 %) | 9 (32,1 %) | 4 (14,3 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 11 (35,5 %) | 12 (38,7 %) | 8 (25,8 %) |
| Other | 10 (43,5 %) | 8 (34,8 %) | 5 (21,7 %) |
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences7 of the 295 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 | 98 (33,2 %) | 128 (43,4 %) | 69 (23,4 %) |
| Plastics/chemicals production | 11 (23,9 %) | 27 (58,7 %) | 8 (17,4 %) |
| Raw materials distribution/trading/compounding | 9 (25,0 %) | 17 (47,2 %) | 10 (27,8 %) |
| Plastics machinery/equipment/tools | 2 (50,0 %) | 1 (25,0 %) | 1 (25,0 %) |
| Plastics processing | 33 (31,4 %) | 45 (42,9 %) | 27 (25,7 %) |
| Plastic products trade | 8 (28,6 %) | 12 (42,9 %) | 8 (28,6 %) |
| Plastics recycling/recovery | 9 (60,0 %) | 3 (20,0 %) | 3 (20,0 %) |
| Brand owner | 8 (57,1 %) | 5 (35,7 %) | 1 (7,1 %) |
| Other sector | 16 (40,0 %) | 14 (35,0 %) | 10 (25,0 %) |
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 295 responses are without information on the number of employees in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 98 (33,2 %) | 128 (43,4 %) | 69 (23,4 %) |
| <20 | 10 (27,0 %) | 15 (40,5 %) | 12 (32,4 %) |
| 21-100 | 26 (28,9 %) | 39 (43,3 %) | 25 (27,8 %) |
| 101-500 | 36 (43,4 %) | 31 (37,3 %) | 16 (19,3 %) |
| >500 | 26 (31,0 %) | 43 (51,2 %) | 15 (17,9 %) |
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences7 of the 295 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 | 98 (33,2 %) | 128 (43,4 %) | 69 (23,4 %) |
| <25% | 35 (33,3 %) | 47 (44,8 %) | 23 (21,9 %) |
| 25-50% | 21 (35,6 %) | 26 (44,1 %) | 12 (20,3 %) |
| >50-75% | 16 (27,6 %) | 27 (46,6 %) | 15 (25,9 %) |
| >75% | 25 (37,9 %) | 26 (39,4 %) | 15 (22,7 %) |
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 105 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 | 33 (31,4 %) | 45 (42,9 %) | 27 (25,7 %) |
| Benelux | 5 (50,0 %) | 4 (40,0 %) | 1 (10,0 %) |
| Central & Eastern Europe | 4 (28,6 %) | 5 (35,7 %) | 5 (35,7 %) |
| France | 1 (14,3 %) | 5 (71,4 %) | 1 (14,3 %) |
| German-speaking Europe | 1 (33,3 %) | 2 (66,7 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| Italy | 5 (35,7 %) | 5 (35,7 %) | 4 (28,6 %) |
| Nordic region | 4 (22,2 %) | 9 (50,0 %) | 5 (27,8 %) |
| Southeastern Europe | 2 (15,4 %) | 8 (61,5 %) | 3 (23,1 %) |
| Spain & Portugal | 7 (70,0 %) | 1 (10,0 %) | 2 (20,0 %) |
| UK & Ireland | 2 (18,2 %) | 5 (45,5 %) | 4 (36,4 %) |
| Other | 1 (25,0 %) | 1 (25,0 %) | 2 (50,0 %) |
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences)Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 33 (31,4 %) | 45 (42,9 %) | 27 (25,7 %) |
| Packaging | 5 (20,8 %) | 10 (41,7 %) | 9 (37,5 %) |
| Automotive | 10 (35,7 %) | 14 (50,0 %) | 4 (14,3 %) |
| E&E | 3 (50,0 %) | 2 (33,3 %) | 1 (16,7 %) |
| Construction materials | 7 (31,8 %) | 7 (31,8 %) | 8 (36,4 %) |
| Consumer goods | 3 (21,4 %) | 7 (50,0 %) | 4 (28,6 %) |
| Medical | 3 (75,0 %) | 1 (25,0 %) | 0 (0,0 %) |
| Other sector | 2 (28,6 %) | 4 (57,1 %) | 1 (14,3 %) |
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences1 of the 105 responses are without information on the number of employees in the data set and are missing in the chart)
Balance of “Better” and “Worse”
Data table
| Better | Same | Worse | |
| Total | 33 (31,4 %) | 45 (42,9 %) | 27 (25,7 %) |
| <20 | 1 (14,3 %) | 2 (28,6 %) | 4 (57,1 %) |
| 21-100 | 9 (28,1 %) | 13 (40,6 %) | 10 (31,3 %) |
| 101-500 | 14 (40,0 %) | 12 (34,3 %) | 9 (25,7 %) |
| >500 | 9 (30,0 %) | 18 (60,0 %) | 3 (10,0 %) |
2. What are the expectations for your company’s business performance in the first half of 2023, compared to the second half of 2022?
a) Total (domestic and export)
(Sums not equal to 100% are based on rounding differences5 of the 105 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 | 33 (31,4 %) | 45 (42,9 %) | 27 (25,7 %) |
| <25% | 10 (32,3 %) | 14 (45,2 %) | 7 (22,6 %) |
| 25-50% | 4 (22,2 %) | 8 (44,4 %) | 6 (33,3 %) |
| >50-75% | 9 (34,6 %) | 13 (50,0 %) | 4 (15,4 %) |
| >75% | 9 (36,0 %) | 9 (36,0 %) | 7 (28,0 %) |