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Plastics industry in NRW

With its distinctive cross-sectional character, the plastics industry is the carrier and driver of innovations in the fields of materials, production processes and products for practically all areas of life in NRW. A continuous value added chain of plastic manufacturers, plastic processors and manufacturers of plastic-processing machinery, an extensive scientific, research, and service landscape, and a broad spectrum of users with, in some cases, considerable plastic-processing capacities which are recorded statistically in other sectors (e.g. automo¬tive, electrical engineering, furniture), are all proof of the industry's excellence.
More than 900 companies with 20 or more employees from the plastics industry, hundreds of small companies, manufacturers of plastic-processing machinery, user firms with their own processing capacities, as well as associations and fa¬cilities from science and education, form the plastics cluster in NRW which amounts to a total of approx. 3,000 companies and organizations with well over than 120,000 employees. Successful companies include Bayer MaterialScience, Evonik Industries, LANXESS (manufacturer), Bond-Laminates, Poschmann (processor), and ENGEL, Reifenhäuser (mechanical engineering).

Number of companies NRW's share of German companies	913 21.4 %
Employees NRW's share of German employees	118,554 21.3 %
Sales Thereof foreign sales NRW's share of German sales	32.4 EUR bn 49.7 % 22.3 %
Average monthly earnings	3,221 EUR
Exports NRW's share of German exports	20.0 EUR bn 20.8%
Imports NRW's share of German imports	14.5 EUR bn 19.6 %

Source: IT.NRW; data: as of 2010
* the figures refer to mechanical engineering (C 28) and companies with 20 and more employees; they are based on the new "Classification of Economic Activities (WZ 2008)"
** the figures refer to foreign trade statistics North Rhine-Westphalia

 

The most important buyer countries (in %)

The most important supplier countries (in %)

Source: IT.NRW, Foreign trade statistics for North Rhine-Westphalia; data: as of 2010

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