However, in 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry. Natural gas prices have dropped so low that gas producers were burning if off on-site (not being worth the cost to transport it to cracking facilities). In addition, bans on single-use consumer plastic (in China, the European Union, Canada, and many countries in Africa), and bans on plastic bags (in several states in the USA) has reduced demand for plastics considerably. Many cracking facilities in the USA have been suspended. The petrochemical industry has been trying to save itself by attempting to rapidly expand demand for plastic products worldwide (i.e. through pushbacks on plastic bans and by increasing the number of products wrapped in plastic in countries where plastic use is not already as widespread (i.e. developing nations)).[5]
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The plastics industry manufactures polymer materials commonly called plastics and offers services in plastics important to a range of industries including packaging building and construction electronics aerospace manufacturing and transportation It is part of the chemical industry In addition as mineral oil is the major constituent of plastics it therefore forms part of the petrochemical industry Besides plastics production plastics engineering is an important part of the industrial sector The latter field is dominated by engineering plastic as raw material because of its better mechanical and thermal properties than the more widely used commodity plastics Contents 1 Companies 2 Markets 3 Production 4 History 5 Associations 5 1 United States 5 2 Europe 5 3 United Kingdom 5 4 India 5 5 International 6 Countries and sites 7 Initiatives 8 Journals and conferences 9 Trade Shows 10 See also 11 ReferencesCompanies editFurther information Category Plastics companiesMarkets editAccording to PlasticsEurope the top three markets for plastics are packaging building and construction and automotive 1 See also Plastics in the construction industryProduction edit nbsp Global Plastic Production 1950 2022 2 Plastics production has been growing globally The numbers include thermoplastics and polyurethanes as well as thermosets adhesives coatings sealants and PP fibers 1 Data was gathered by PlasticsEurope PEMRG and Consultic or the nova institute 3 4 World plastics production in Mt year Megatonnes 2002 204 2007 257 2009 250 2011 279 2012 288 2013 299 2018 370 5 2022 400 3 However in 2020 the COVID 19 pandemic has had a devastating effect on the fossil fuel and petrochemical industry Natural gas prices have dropped so low that gas producers were burning if off on site not being worth the cost to transport it to cracking facilities In addition bans on single use consumer plastic in China the European Union Canada and many countries in Africa and bans on plastic bags in several states in the USA has reduced demand for plastics considerably Many cracking facilities in the USA have been suspended The petrochemical industry has been trying to save itself by attempting to rapidly expand demand for plastic products worldwide i e through pushbacks on plastic bans and by increasing the number of products wrapped in plastic in countries where plastic use is not already as widespread i e developing nations 5 History editFurther information Timeline of plastic development Alexander Crum Brown discovered the carbon double bond in ethylene James Swinburne the Father of British Plastics revolutionized the plastics industry in Europe Leo Baekeland whom created the first plastic Bakelite Hermann Staudinger who received the Nobel Prize for his discoveries of Macromolecules and Polymers the chemical backbone of plastics Associations editUnited States edit American Plastics Council trade association Society of the Plastics Industry American Chemistry Council Europe edit European Polymer Federation scientific United Kingdom edit British Plastics Federation trade association India edit Plastindia International edit International Association of Plastics Distributors Society of Plastics EngineersCountries and sites editBeccles is a town in England which is a center of the plastics industry Erie Pennsylvania is a center of the plastics industry in the United States Oyonnax is called Plastic Valley in France Stenungsund is a town in Sweden which is considered to be a centre for the plastic industry in ScandinaviaInitiatives editPlastics 2020 Challenge Plastics Free JulyJournals and conferences editPlastics News Plastics News Global GroupTrade Shows editNPE National Plastics Expo USA Chinaplas China K Germany Plastimagen Mexico Plastindia and Plastivision India Plastpol Poland Interplas United Kingdom Interplastica Russia See also editEconomics of plastics processing Plastic pollution Dedicated bio based chemical Drop in bioplastic ThermoplasticReferences edit a b Plastics the fast Facts 2023 An analysis of European plastics production demand and waste data www plasticseurope org Enviraj Charts Global Plastic Production 1950 2022 oer enviraj com 2024 consultic consultic www consultic de Retrieved 17 April 2018 Chinthapalli Raj Skoczinski Pia Carus Michael Baltus Wolfgang de Guzman Doris Kab Harald Raschka Achim Ravenstijn Jan 2019 08 01 Biobased Building Blocks and Polymers Global Capacities Production and Trends 2018 2023 Industrial Biotechnology 15 4 237 241 doi 10 1089 ind 2019 29179 rch ISSN 1550 9087 Will coronavirus be the death or salvation of Big Plastic nbsp Media related to Plastics industry at Wikimedia Commons nbsp This industry related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Plastics industry amp oldid 1220600860, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
