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Plastic Consumption Rises 14.3% This Year

After suffering in the doldrums during the economic crisis, local plastics  producers have enjoyed increased demand for the past two years.

A group of three plastics producer associations, INAplas, revealed that  domestic plastics consumption this year had reached the pre-crisis level of  1.6 million tons.

 INAplas president Didie W. Soewondho explained in Jakarta on Wednesday that  the domestic plastics market had grown by 15 percent in the period 1999 to  2001.

Didie noted that the steady increase in national plastics consumption  indicated that the domestic plastics market had recovered from the crisis.  The Jakarta Post, Jakarta