AMI's Performance Polyamides Conference, which takes place at the Sofitel Bayerpost Munich Hotel in Germany on 22-23 November, has over the past five years established itself as a key meeting place for leaders across the polyamides supply chain to explore the latest technical and application developments, market trends and topical challenges facing the industry.

Speakers at this year’s event include representatives from Arkema, Asahi Kasei Europe, Baerlocher, BASF, Büdenheim, Cabot Corp, Clariant, Eurotec Engineering Plastics, Gujarat Fluorchemicals, ICL-IP, Lanxess, Radici Group, Röchling Automotive and VTT, while Volvo Group Trucks will take part in an expert panel session.

Performance Polyamides 2021 boasts a truly international audience. This year’s event is also co-located with AMI’s Conductive Plastics conference, which begins immediately after the Performance Polyamides conference and provides an opportunity to learn more about this exciting niche market opportunity.

The Performance Polyamides programme can be found here.

TheConductive Plasticsprogramme can be found here.

For further information about either event, please contact Emily Timney, Conference Organiser, on Tel: +44 117 314 8111 or emily.timney@ami.international.com

According to our new report published in September 2021, market penetration for Long Fibre Polypropylene (LFT PP) is rising. The new report quantifies the use of both granule LFT PP (LFT-G) and direct in-line compounding LFT PP (LFT-D) tracking its use around the world. The result is a comprehensive analysis of LFT PP by application, OEM, producer and geographical region. The key metric in the report is kg/vehicle which allows the disaggregation of volatile car production numbers from underlying usage trends.

LFT PP is used widely in automotive front-end carriers, instrument-panel carriers, door-panels, consoles, pedals, under-body shields and many other applications. A feature of many of these applications is that LFT PP replaces steel and thereby reduces weight or replaces more expensive engineering plastics.

AMI Consulting is forecasting strong growth of LFT PP through to 2025. Some applications are growing much faster than others and some OEMs are adopting LFT PP more rapidly than others.

Read the full Press Release here