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Article: European adhesives industry suffering.
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- Rubber World
- Article date:
- September 1, 1994
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Between the end of the Second World War and the late 1980s, the adhesives industry grew in the industrialized countries of North America, Western Europe and Japan by leaps and bounds, trebling in size as adhesion technology advanced and more new uses for adhesives were discovered.
For the first time ever, the European adhesives industry experienced a decline in both volume and value terms in 1993, falling from its 1992 value of 2,237,300 tons ($5,232.5 million U.S.) to 2,144,700 tons ($4,873.7 million), representing a 4.1% fall in unit growth and a 6.9% fall in revenues
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