Monday 25 November 2019

Asia Pacific Coatings Market Analysis 2018 - 2019

1. Asia Pacific is the world’s largest coatings market and has been growing at above-market rates for many years now and thus it can be considered the most important coatings market in the world.  

2. Asia Pacific comprises a vast region of the world with some of the world’s largest and most dynamic economies including China, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia and other countries. 

3. Not only is it the largest market globally but it continues to outperform the global coatings market.  

Sunday 17 November 2019

Thailand's Rubber Industry Forecast, Challenge & Opportunities

1. Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia are the top three producers representing 75% of the global rubber output.

2. With approximately 3.3 million hectares rubber plantation area across the country and about 1.6 million households rubber agriculturists. Thailand’s rubber industry has a full range of supply chain from upstream to downstream. The upstream is mainly involved with the planting and harvesting of rubber. 

3. Following by the midstream that involves the processing of rubber into semi-finished products for downstream industry such as ribbed smoked sheets (RSS), technically specified rubber (TSR), concentrated latex and compound rubber and skim rubber. 

4. Lastly, the downstream industry includes the production of rubber products such as vehicle tires, gloves, condoms, elastics and shoes.

Non-life ILS capacity hits near-record high

1. The insurance-linked securities (ILS) market has enjoyed significant growth this year, with non-life capacity issued or outstanding at a near-record high, research by Willis Re has uncovered.

2. The findings show that there was $27.3bn (£21.2bn) of non-life capacity issued or outstanding at the end of the third quarter, exceeded only by the $27.8bn recorded for all of 2018.

Sunday 3 November 2019

Japan & Thailand Quarter 3 2019 Manufacturing Report & Production Index

 Profits slow and Purchasing Index Shrinks