Destination ASEAN

Looking at the export towards ASEAN countries (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mynamar, Philippine, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam) of the main manufacturers of plastics and rubber machinery, in the last three-year period, it is possible to see opposite trends and even a common denominator. For all competitors 2009 resulted decreasing with respect to 2008 – with different rates ranging from -34% of Italy and -6% of Germany to -16% of Japan and -1% of China – whilst the trend in the period 2007-2009 gave two positive and two negative marks. As a matter of fact, sales of Germany and China record an average growth (respectively +11 and +17%) whilst those of Italy and Japan suffer a decrease (2 and -8%).
Japan, even loosing market shares, is still the main supplier of the ASEAN countries, with an export value of almost 525 million euro in 2009; at second place we find China, exceeding 320 million, then Germany with about 185 million and Italy, just below 45 million.