Asia dominates global release liner market

Asia accounted for more than a third of the global consumption of release liner last year, according to Alexander Watson Associates’ Global Release Liner Market Update 2015 report.

Global Release Liner Market Update 2015 is the eighth edition of this annual market report that provides insights of value to all involved in, or seeking to explore, the release liner supply chain, in terms of current and forecast future status

Asia, at 37 percent of the market share, surpassed Europe and North America, which both accounted for around 28 percent of the overall global total of 43,984 million sq m of release liner consumed in 2014.  

The emerging economies of South America, Africa and the Middle East made up the remaining seven percent.

The report added that pressure-sensitive labelstock remains the prime end-use segment for both paper- and film-based liner, and grew by four percent in 2014, although it was the market for pressure-sensitive tapes that grew globally most dynamically at 9.7 percent.

Global Release Liner Market Update 2015 is the eighth edition of this annual market report that provides insights of value to all involved in, or seeking to explore, the release liner supply chain, in terms of current and forecast future status.

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