plast expo

Production and turnover of the North-African and African plastics industry are on a steady upswing, with double-digit growth rates in 2009 as well as in the past few years. The Moroccan plastics industry, for instance, counts 35,000 employees, and has generated a turn-over of Euro 740 million in 2009. According to FMP, the Moroccan Plastics Federation, the target is to triple this turnover between 2010 and 2020, to then Euro 2.3 billion.

In Algeria as well, the plastics industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of the Algerian industry, and one of the most important ones. Its growth is driven manifold: by huge governmental projects and infrastructural investments (hydraulics, building and construction, energy, agriculture, gas tubes for Sonelgaz, …), as well as by industrial sub-contracting and the demand for packaging materials.  It consists of some 1 000 enterprises, among them subsidiaries of heavyweights such as Sonatrach, Enip, Iap, Enpc, but mostly of small and medium sized private enterprises. Around 40% of them are active in injection, 20 % in extrusion, the rest in the fast-growing packaging and plasticulture sectors. The workforce stands at around 20,000.
 
With an annual consumption of 1 million tons, half of which being imported from Asia and Europe, the Algerian plastics market has an enormous potential. The per capita consumption stands between 8 to 10 kg. Between 2005 and 2007, 370.000 tons of diverse plastics products had been imported, worth US$ 600 million. Nowadays the demand is estimated at 300.000 tons per year, for all applications.

To cope with this potential, the leading trade show in the region, plast expo 2011, provides an ideal business platform.