Update 2009 now published. The current edition of the report is now available and encompasses two books:

Standard Version: Pipe Materials in figures 2006 – 2012, 4.190 companies, datas on CD + Print, 920,- €, Subscribers only pay 680,- €. Premium Version incl. Excel and PowerPoint Format costs 1.220,- € or 980,- € for Subscribers.

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Volume I. Marketing:
Long-term charts from 2006 to 2012 illustrating how many pipes are sold in million meters, in tons, in million Euros and fittings sold in million units for 27 European countries and all Europe in total. Numbers for FH (under floor heating), RA (radiator connection) and SA (sanitary) pipes are shown separately and aggregated per country. In the text section, updated listings of inspection certificate holders granted by well-known institutes are provided (per August 2009). Also, detailed information on individual countries, market developments and pipe materials can be found. In addition, graphs illustrate Top Ten rankings of multi-layer, PE-X and PE-RT pipe processors for 2009.

Volume II. Addresses:
The updated list contains 4,190 company names of the European heating and sanitary industry. All companies are listed in alphabetical order and by products to make searching easy. In the detailed country-by-country address section, street address, E-mail and web addresses, a list of products and a brief company profile are provided.

The Standard Version contains the two books and a CD with the pdf file for 680,- Euro plus VAT for subscribers in Germany. Shipping within Germany is free of charge.

In addition to that, the Premium Version includes the long-term charts from 2006 to 2012 for all 27 European countries covered and for all Europe in total in an editable Excel spreadsheet format. Here also, pipe lengths in million meters are shown for FH, RA and SA and aggregated for all three types. Default graphs for all major pipe materials are provided for each country but these graphs can easily be adapted to individual requirements. They are also included in the Powerpoint presentation of the Premium Version. Moreover, other useful information for each country is presented, e.g. number of inhabitants, largest cities, pipe manufacturers and new housing completion numbers. The Premium Version is available at 980,- Euro plus VAT for subscribers in Germany. Shipping within Germany is free of charge.

Our Market Study “Multilayer Pipes Worldwide 2008″ is now published! Euro 950,- for subscribers, others pay Euro 1200,-. 555 pages, CD and Print, in english language.

Contents: General Informations, Extrusion and Forming Machinery, Materials, Special Fittings and Systems, Multilayer Pipe Producers, Company Activities, Companies alphabetical and by countries, Graphics and Tables.

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All market participants in the composite pipe business are monitoring the development of the market situation with a certain degree of trepidation. The madness of last year not only saw “established banks” thrown into an unprecedented crisis of identity (one after the other, commercial banks were revealed to be casinos), there are also less than there used to be. It would indeed have been possible for most of them to accept the fact that plastic pipes without exception had to take losses for the first time, and not just on the domestic market but also in the export sector, because composite pipes still continued to grow – if only marginally – and only a few manufacturers also had to accept losses in this market segment.

For more than 20 years we have monitored the unprecedented fascinating composite pipe market with increasing intensity and we have now compiled all the information it was actually possible to gather, view and check from around the world. The outcome: Some 150 composite pipe manufacturers have a current capacity of 2.1 billion metres of composite pipe at over 466 lines and are increasingly challenging European providers, not only in their home territories but also in their seemingly traditional export markets, and successfully so. Get ready to be amazed by our new study you (we were too). As we fall under the description of “bean counters”, you can also check it in detail, country by country and company by company; we have always attempted to bring everything into the open that we were able to nail down. The informations in this study are enough to simply gain an impression of the scale of the global composite pipe market.

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