According to the statistics of the French industry association, driven by the economic crisis in the first seven months of 2009, the French plastic machinery and raw material sales market shrank by 40%.

It is encouraging that the French government has provided funds to plastic machinery manufacturers. More specifically, ACDI set up the Hope Fund to help businesses buy supplies t repair old machinery, among other things.

Jean Michel Flamein, the president of ACDI, said more funds would be available from the French government this month.

Last year ACDI pioneered initiatives in the plastics industry in France, which included promoting new technologies at the International Philatelic Exhibition in Lyon, launching a series of conferences entitled Orizeons, and holding a technical conference at the University of Saint-Brieux, Rennes.

Initiative that pioneered the plastics industry in France. These included the promotion of new technologies at the International Philatelic Exhibition in Lyon, the launch of a series of conferences, and the holding of technical conferences, among others. The organization now also supports plastic machinery manufacturers in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.

Flamein said that in the last three months of 2009, the plastic machinery market began to pick up. However, the environment facing the plastic machinery market in 2010 is still very difficult.