Facing declines in their traditional export markets in North America and Europe, Asia’s wood-plastic composite makers are increasingly switching their focus to their regional markets, where local demand is growing more than 10 percent a year.
While that might suggest good times, it seems that too many people have had the same idea – the massive factory building binge among China’s WPC makers in recent years has left the country saddled with overcapacity, executives said at a recent conference In China.
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Keywords: composites, door panels, automakers, furniture, natural fiber composite, WPC technology, natural fiber-polypropylene
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Plastics News, 2011-10-25.
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