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Closing remarksDr. Abdulwahab Al Sadoun, Secretary General, GPCA

• GCC plastics industry

• Key conference highlights

• Acknowledgements

• 2018 GPCA calendar of

events

Agenda

9.312.0 12.6

17.519.1 19.8

22.2 22.625.0 25.5

28.1 28.8

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

GCC polymers production capacity

CAGR (2007 - 2017)

9%

Saudi Arabia70%

UAE17%

Qatar7%

Kuwait3%

Oman3%

Current industry landscape: Production capacity growth in GCC

(2007-2017)

Source: GPCA, 2018

Saudi Arabia accounted for 70% of

GCC polymer resins production in

2017, while the UAE enjoyed the

highest growth rate, expanding by

17% p.a. during the past decade.

Sustainable plastic innovation: Closing the loop

20.5

24.5

30.3

26.7

32.2

28.727.8

29.2

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 E

GCC polymers sales (2010 - 2017)USD million

CAGR (2010-2017)

5%

GCC polymers sales


Direct and indirect employment

42.8

128.3 171.1

Direct Employment Indirect Employment Total Chemicals RelatedEmployment

Total polymer industry employment in 2017(thousands)


In 2017, GCC produced 29 unique differentiated products/grades most of

which are first of their kind in the Middle East

9.312.0 12.6

17.5 19.1 19.822.2 22.6

25.0 25.528.1 28.8

8 8 8 9 9 10 1113

15 1619

29

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Mill

ion

s

GCC polymers production capacity and number of products

GCC Polymers Production Capacity (Million Tons) Number of productsSource: GPCA, 2018

The diversification drive


GCC polymer industry has significantly diversified over the past

decade with engineering and performance polymers entering the

production market

12.0

26.6

2.2

0

5

10

15

20

25

30

35

2007 2017

Mill

ions

GCC polymers production capacity (million tons)

Major Polymers Capacity Capacity Additions (2007-2017)

ABS, Butyl Rubber,

Carbon black/ Fiber,

Elastomers, EPDM,

EVA, EPS,

Polyacetal,

Polyamide, PBR,

PBT, Polycarbonate,

Polyether polyols,

XLPE, PMMA, SBR,

Source: GPCA, 2018

ABS27%

Butyl rubber13%

EPDM13%

SBR14%

TPE14%

Carbon Black & Fiber7%

Polyacetal7%

PMMA5%

New products introduced in 2017


Share of domestic market sales out of total production or export

20.5% 20.9% 20.5% 22.5% 20.9% 21.0% 19.9% 19.9%

79.5% 79.1% 79.5% 77.5% 79.1% 79.0% 80.1% 80.1%

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Composition of GCC polymers production – Domestic vs. export

Domestic Consumption Export


GCC global position

China31%

Asia (Excluding China)21%

North America16%

Europe14%

GCC9%

South America4%

Africa1%

The rest of World4%

Global thermoplastics production capacity

GCC accounts for 9% of global thermoplastics capacity,

however, the growth is one of the fastest globally

0.3%

1%

2%

5%

9%

10%

10%

16%

17%

EPS

PVC

PS

PET

Thermoplastics

LDPE

PP

HDPE

LLDPE

GCC share globally in 2016

Top 9 products


CAGR (2017 - 2027)

4.2%

28.8 29.3 30.134.8 36.2 36.2

43.5

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023

Future outlook – GCC polymers production capacity(2017-2023), million tons

• GCC Plastics Industry



• 2018 GPCA calendar of

events

Agenda


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9th GPCA PlastiCon by the numbers

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Attendance trends – Number of participants

277

222 227

2016 2017 2018

201

414

2 0 1

205

214

3 3 0

GCC N.America

Europe Asia N. Africa SouthAmerica

2017 2018

Participants by region.

Representation from across the value chain

14 12

1

11

22

10 70 1

122

40

4

2314

06

29

17 16

1 1

107

5 5 3

2017 2018*As of 15th March 2018


Congratulations to the winners of the 8th

GPCA Plastics Excellence Awards

Sponsored by:


Leaders of Tomorrow –6th edition


Publication released during PlastiCon



•Acknowledgements• 2018 GPCA calendar of

events

Agenda


Speakers

Ahmed Omar Abdulla Abdulrahman

Al-Fageeh

Javier Constante Paula Sanabria Luque Talke Schaffrannek

Andreas Thuermer Eng. Othaiba Al Qaydi Abhay Bhargava David Lines Klaus Wohnig


Speakers

Adrian Griffiths Roger Lee Wouter Boomsma Rakesh Singh

M’hamed Younes

Lahlou Kris Barber


Moderators

Mohammed

Azougagh

David Lines


The awards jury

Dr. Raed Al Zubi

President,

Society of Plastics

Engineers (SPE)

Dr. Khaled Al-Ghefaili

Dean,

Higher Institute for

Plastics Fabrication

Dr. Hoshiar Y. Molod

VP, Technology

and Innovation

Petrochemicals

Division,

TASNEE

Dr. Thorsten

Loehl

VP, Innovation,

Borouge Pte Ltd

Abdullah Al-Otaibi

Sr. Manager, Pipe IS

Global Segments,

SABIC


Sponsors and exhibitors


Thank you to our content partner


GPCA Plastics Committee

Ahmed Omar

Abdullah

Chairman

Borouge

Abdulwahab

Al-Khaldi

Vice

Chairman

Sadara

Abdullah

Al-Zahrani

Al-Watania

Plastics

Tilman Ehret

Astra Polymer

Compounding

Co. LTD.

Frank

Fasdernes

BASF

Khalfan

Al Muhairi

Borouge

Craig

Halgreen

Borouge

Walid Najjar

Cosmoplast

& Interplast

Group

Muayad

Al Faresi

EQUATE

Manfred

Klepacz

Ingenia

Polymers

Mohamed

Azougagh

Lyondell

Basell

Yousef

Fakhro

Muntajat

Issam

Chaaya

NAPCO

Hamed

Al Rumhi

ORPIC

Abdul Aziz

Ahmed

Bashraheel

QAPCO

Mubarak

Al-Mubarak

RCJY

Awadh

AlWaridah

SABIC

Ayoub

Al Ghamdi

S-Chem

Sultan

Al Zahrani

Tasnee

Roberto P.

Ribeiro

Townsend

Solutions

Sameh

Attalah

Dow

Chemicals


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