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Most raw material costs for commodity resins declined in 2023, so making gains within this year's 159-firm ranking depends on value-added operations and acquisitions.
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Plastics News offers a new way to track and rank capital expenditures by publicly held plastics processors.
This year's ranking of top rotomolders includes 106 companies with $3.08 billion in combined sales. That's down 1.5 percent over last year's ranking.
We've updated our annual pipe, profile and tubing extruders ranking of 189 North America plastic processors for the 2023 fiscal year end with sales totaling $32 billion.
Total sales for injection molders outside the Top 100 is $41.8 billion. That's up 2.7 percent over last year's report and marks a third straight year of gains in the average sales per company.
The results in our ranking follow the trend reported in our coverage of the expanding medical market and the packaging sector lifting off the gas in favor of product and material developments, supporting sustainability. Automotive sales were up 24 percent in Mexico and 12 percent in both the U.S. and Canada.
In this week's issue, our special report covers 192 North American suppliers of recycled resins, including both reprocessed and brokered materials.
The trend line is clear from this year's thermoforming data: Packaging thermoforming was heading into a trough while industrial thermoforming was bouncing back.
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