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The Algerian plastics industry

With an annual growth rate that amounts to 4% - 5% in these past few ears, the Algerian plastics industry is one of the fastest growing sectors of the Algerian industry, and one of the most important ones.
 
Its growth is driven manifold: by huge governmental projects and infrastructural investments (hydraulics, building and construction, energy, agriculture, gas tubes for Sonelgaz, etc.), as well as by industrial sub-contracting and the demand for packaging materials.
 
The Algerian plastics industry consists of some 2,200 enterprises, among them subsidiaries of heavyweights such as Sonatrach, Enip, Iap, Enpc, but mostly of small and medium sized private enterprises. Around 40% of them are active in injection, 20 % in extrusion, the rest in the fast-growing packaging and plasticulture sectors. The workforce stands at around 20,000.
 
With an annual consumption of 1 million tons, half of which being imported from Asia and Europe, the Algerian plastics market has an enormous potential. The per capita consumption is between 8 to 10 kg.