Given that the study of the first three quarters this year market movements, Germany reinforced plastic alliance (AVK) released the latest report predicted that in 2014 the European glass fiber reinforced plastic (GRP) output will reach 1.04 million tons, up 2% from a year earlier. The above data based on the analysis on the European countries except Turkey market and concluded.

  In recent years, Europe especially robust German car manufacturing industry. Group that affected by the molding compound (BMC) and the sheet molding compound (SMC) parts demand rose sharply. Is expected in 2014 the total market demand will reach 264000 tons, up 3%. And this to a great extent, further push up the GRP market as a whole. In terms of craftsmanship, the current global production of GRP methods varied, including hand lay-up molding process, injection molding process, molding process, moulding material molding process, the filament winding forming technology, etc. Became the main trend in Europe, in 2013, after the resin casting and injection molding process and plate and pipe molding process of the two consecutive production methods popularity fell this year. On the contrary, RTM molding process (molding molding process), an increasingly market to be bestowed favor on newly. Data show that Europe using this method, a total of 2013 produced 126000 tons of GRP is expected this resin is expected to rise to 132000 tons in 2014.

  According to the report, although in general the next few years the GRP market outlook can be, but European pipeline and oil tank these two terminal application field of GRP market demand is not optimistic. AVK said, although the benefit from the construction of water conservancy facilities, rising global GRP pipe demand, but these growth opportunities are in Europe.

  Glass fiber reinforced plastic is a kind of glass fiber reinforced unsaturated polyester, epoxy resin and phenolic resin as matrix of composite plastic materials. As a kind of composite material, FRP because of its unique performance advantages, in the aerospace, railway, building decoration, household furniture, building materials, sanitary ware and sanitation engineering has been widely used, and so on related industries.