• Corporate details: Head office address, telephone, fax numbers, e-mail and web site address.
• Ownership details: Name of the ultimate holding company or whether or not publicly or privately held.
• Business overview: A review of the corporate strategy and development to date in concentrates, including recent acquisitions, divestments, investments or other significant business changes.
• Financial results: Four year results for the period 2004-2008 with estimates of the proportion of turnover in concentrates.
• Concentrate operations in North America: A complete listing of all plants operated in North America with estimated thermoplastic concentrate production for 2008.
• International operations: This indicates where else in the world the company has concentrate operations.
• Product line: An assessment of the main types of concentrates produced.
• Other activities: An indication of the company’s involvement in other sectors of the plastics processing industry.

In addition this report also provides an overview of the concentrate market in North America. A comprehensive introduction also analyses the top 50 groups by throughput.