North American

Masterbatch Market

For Thermoplastic Concentrate

Febuary 2016

By: Abbas Talebi

Polyten/Parsmasterbatch

Crude Oil to Natural Gas Price Ratio

Natural Gas

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PE per capita consumption link to GDP

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North America market study

• 140 companies that seriously manufacture thermoplastic concentrate for the merchant market in NAFTA. This number does not include compounders which toll produce concentrates for resin producers or those that make concentrates for their own internal use.

• 1.3 million mt of concentrate produced in 2012

Top Three

• Top three manufacturers accounting for over 40% of production (27% in value)

1.Heritage Plastics produces 300,000 mt/year

2. Ampacet US$400 million sale in 2011

3. A. Schulman

• Although Schulman and Ampacet are looking to grow their custom colour operations, the market leaders in this segment continue to be Clariant and PolyOne.

• These both have a market share of around 10% by volume of the colour concentrates market, more than double that of any other player in the colour market.

Plastics Product Gross margin

Shipment per person

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