{"id":15398,"date":"2011-10-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20111025-02n"},"modified":"2013-10-23T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T12:09:19","slug":"asian-wpc-makers-eye-local-markets-but-face-overcapacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/asian-wpc-makers-eye-local-markets-but-face-overcapacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian WPC makers eye local markets, but face overcapacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Facing declines in their traditional export markets in North America and Europe, Asia\u2019s wood-plastic composite makers are increasingly switching their focus to their regional markets, where local demand is growing more than 10 percent a year.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>While that might suggest good times, it seems that too many people have had the same idea &#8211; the massive factory building binge among China\u2019s WPC makers in recent years has left the country saddled with overcapacity, executives said at a recent conference In China.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/headlines2.html?id=23505&#038;channel=337\" >www.plasticsnews.com\/headlines2.html?id=23505&#038;channel=337<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Keywords: composites, door panels, automakers, furniture, natural fiber composite, WPC technology, natural fiber-polypropylene<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Facing declines in their traditional export markets in North America and Europe, Asia&rsquo;s wood-plastic composite makers are increasingly switching their focus to their regional markets,<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-15398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15398"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}