European seal market builds on tradition

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 284 KB
• Volume: 2000
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1350-4789
• DOI: 10.1016/s1350-4789(00)89013-3

✦ Synopsis

Representing

nearly one-third of the worldwide market for seals and sealing products, Western Europe is now worth over three billion dollars. In this article Contributing Editor, Roy Szweda, provides an overview and market forecast for the Western European market for sealing products. Europe is the second largest market after North America and has much traditional strength in sealing technology but like other regions it has suffered by downturns in some manufacturing sectors such as that for vehicles. But buoyancy in other sectors such as aerospace and electronics has more than made up the shortfall.