Industry & Market Numbers 2019/2020
- No. 1 in Europe: Share of around 32 percent of the total European plastics production
- Leadership in plastics production and consumption, export and import, and in investment in fixed assets and expenditure in R&D
No. 1 FDI destination country in Europe and within EU; 2010-2020 Germany received more than 21 percent of all plastics and rubber FDI projects into EU-28
Sales more than EUR 97 billion, 3,510 companies, 421,000 employees
- Plastics production: more than 19 million tons per year, sales EUR 25 billion, 200 companies, 53,000 employees
- Plastics processing: sales EUR 65 billion, 3.060 companies, 336,000 employees
- Plastics and rubber machinery builders: sales EUR 7 billion, more than 250 companies, 32,000 employees
- 75 application-oriented university and non-university research institutes and competence centers in the field of polymer and materials research in close collaboration with the plastics industry
- Over 40 regional plastics networks and innovation cluster
Sources: PlasticsEurope Deutschland e.V. 2020, GTAI FDI Competence Center 2021
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