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Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada - Market Research Report (2014-2029)

Chris DellaCamera Chris DellaCamera New York, United States Last Updated: August 2024 NAICS 33322CA

Revenue

$3.0bn

2024

$3.0bn

Past 5-Year Growth

Profit

$XXX.Xm

Employees

7,553

Businesses

996

Wages

$XXX.Xm

Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada industry analysis

Canadian plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers produce machinery used to make or process plastic and rubber products, including equipment for blow moulding, extruding and injection moulding. Manufacturers primarily rely on demand from foreign markets, as exports account for about half of all revenue. In recent years, improving business conditions helped boost industry activity. Higher rubber and plastic prices also supported revenue growth, as these input cost increases are passed on to buyers. Revenue for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers is expected to grow at a CAGR of 2.3% to $3.0 billion through the end of 2024, including 4.4% growth during the current year. 

Trends and Insights

  • Volatile oil and steel prices are limiting growth. Rapid spikes in input costs can't be quickly balanced with increased selling prices. This disparity hampers financial stability and profit.
  • Machine parts generate the bulk of revenue. Purchasing these parts lowers expenses and delays the need for new machinery investments. This approach helps manage costs and extend the lifespan of existing equipment.
  • Proximity to key inputs keeps costs low. If manufacturers aren't near supply points, transportation costs climb significantly. Staying close to essential resources helps manage expenses and maintain competitiveness.
  • Price is crucial in the low-profit plastics and rubber machinery industry. Manufacturers must also offer a variety of high-quality products to stay competitive. Balancing cost with quality is essential in this market.

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Industry Statistics and Trends

Market size and recent performance (2014-2029)

Industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 2.3 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $3.0bn in 2024.

Trends and Insights

Revenue depends on domestic manufacturing activity

  • Plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers sell to various downstream manufacturing industries, including automotive and plastic products.
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Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada
Revenue (2014-2029)
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Industry outlook (2024-2029)

Market size is projected to grow over the next five years.

Trends and Insights

Construction growth fuels revenue gains

  • Canadian construction markets are expected to grow in the coming years despite rising interest rates.

Biggest companies in the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada

Company
Market Share (%)
2024
Revenue ($m)
2024
Profit ($m)
2024
Profit Margin (%)
2024
Husky Technologies
216.1
17.8
8.2
GN Thermoforming Equipment
21.5
1.7
7.9

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Products & Services Segmentation

Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada
Products & Services
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Injection moulding machines and other moulding machines, Plastic and rubber forming machinery and extruders and Machine parts. Injection moulding machines and other moulding machines is the largest segment of the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada.

Trends and Insights

Soaring demand for moulding machines

  • Injection moulding machines are used to produce plastic products such as bottle caps and plastic buckets. Injection moulding refers to the process of injecting pelletized resins into a machine to produce different plastic products.
  • More insights available in the full report

Table of Contents

About this industry

Industry definition

The Plastics and Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada manufactures machinery used to make or process plastic and rubber products, including machinery for blow moulding, calendaring, plastic-compression moulding, extruding, injection moulding, plastic working, rubber working, tire making, tire recapping and tire shredding.

What's included in this industry?

Producing plastics-working machineryPerforming service, repair and maintenance work on used equipmentProducing thermoforming machineryProducing rubber-working machinery

Companies

Husky TechnologiesGN Thermoforming Equipment

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Related Terms

POLYVINYL CHLORIDE (PVC)HIGH-DENSITY POLYETHYLENE (HDPE)POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATE (PET)

Industry Code

NAICS 2007

NAICS 333220 - Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada

Performance

Get an indication of the industry's health through historical, current and forward-looking trends in the performance indicators that make or break businesses.

Analyst insights

Volatile oil and steel prices are limiting growth. Rapid spikes in input costs can't be quickly balanced with increased selling prices. This disparity hampers financial stabi...

In this chapter (4)

  • Current Performance
  • Outlook
  • Volatility
  • Life Cycle

Key metrics

  • Annual Revenue, Recent Growth, Forecast, Revenue Volatility
  • Number of Employees, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Employee
  • Number of Businesses, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Business
  • Total Profit, Profit Margin, Profit per Business

Charts

  • Revenue, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Employees, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Businesses, including historical (2014-2023) and forecast (2024-2029)
  • Profit, including historical (2014-2024)
  • Industry Volatility vs. Revenue Growth
  • Industry Life Cycle

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in supply, demand and current events that are driving current industry performance
  • Expected trends, economic factors and ongoing events that drive the industry's outlook
  • Key success factors for businesses to overcome volatility
  • How contribution to GDP, industry saturation, innovation, consolidation, and technology and systems influence the industry's life cycle phase.

Products and Markets

Learn about an industry's products and services, markets and trends in international trade.

Analyst insight

Machine parts generate the bulk of revenue. Purchasing these parts lowers expenses and delays the need for new machinery investments. This approach helps manage costs and ext...

In this chapter

  • Products & Services
  • Major Markets
  • International Trade

Key metrics

  • Largest market segment and value in 2024
  • Product innovation level
  • Total imports, level and trend
  • Total exports, level and trend
  • Trade Balance

Charts

  • Products & services segmentation in 2024
  • Major market segmentation in 2024
  • International trade, including imports by country and exports by country

Detailed analysis

  • Trends impacting the recent performance of the industry's various segments
  • Innovations in the industry's product or service offering, specialization or delivery method
  • Key factors that successful businesses consider in their offerings
  • Buying segments and key trends influencing demand for industry products and services
  • Recent trends in import and export volumes, country of origin or destination, and expected future trends

Geographic Breakdown

Discover where business activity is most concentrated in an industry and the factors driving these trends to find opportunities and conduct regional benchmarking.

Analyst insights

Proximity to key inputs keeps costs low. If manufacturers aren't near supply points, transportation costs climb significantly. Staying close to essential resources helps mana...

In this chapter (1)

  • Business Locations

Charts

  • Share of revenue, establishment, wages and employment in each province
  • Share of population compared to establishments in each region in 2024

Tables

  • Number and share of establishments in each province in 2024
  • Number and share of revenue each province accounts for in 2024
  • Number and share of wages each province accounts for in 2024
  • Number and share of employees in each province in 2024

Detailed analysis

  • Geographic spread of the industry across North America, and trends associated with changes in the business landscape
  • Key success factors for businesses to use location to their advantage

Competitive Forces

Get data and insights on what's driving competition in an industry and the challenges industry operators and new entrants may face, with analysis built around Porter's Five Forces framework.

Analyst insights

Price is crucial in the low-profit plastics and rubber machinery industry. Manufacturers must also offer a variety of high-quality products to stay competitive. Balancing cos...

In this chapter (4)

  • Concentration
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Substitutes
  • Buyer & Supplier Analysis

Key metrics

  • Industry concentration level
  • Industry competition level and trend
  • Barriers to entry level and trend
  • Substitutes level and trend
  • Buyer power level and trend
  • Supplier power level and trend

Charts

  • Market share concentration among the top 4 suppliers from 2019-2024
  • Supply chain including upstream supplying industries and downstream buying industries, flow chart

Detailed analysis

  • Factors impacting the industry’s level of concentration, such as business distribution, new entrants, or merger and acquisition activity.
  • Key success factors for businesses to manage the competitive environment of the industry.
  • Challenges that potential industry entrants face such as legal, start-up costs, differentiation, labor/capital intensity and capital expenses.
  • Key success factors for potential entrants to overcome barriers to entry.
  • Competitive threats from potential substitutes for the industry’s own products and services.
  • Key success factors for how successful businesses can compete with substitutes.
  • Advantages that buyers have to keep favorable purchasing conditions.
  • Advantages that suppliers have to maintain favorable selling conditions.
  • Key success factors for how businesses can navigate buyer and supplier power.

Companies

Learn about the performance of the top companies in the industry.

Analyst insights

No company accounts for more than 5.0% of revenue in 2024. The industry is fragmented, with no established leaders.

In this chapter

  • Market Share Concentration
  • Companies
  • Company Spotlights

Charts

  • Industry market share by company in 2020 through 2024
  • Major companies in the industry, including market share, revenue, profit and profit margin in 2024
  • Overview of Husky Technologies's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2018 through 2024
  • Overview of GN Thermoforming Equipment's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2018 through 2024

Detailed analysis

  • Description and key data for Husky Technologies, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for GN Thermoforming Equipment, and factors influencing its performance in the industry

External Environment

Understand the demographic, economic and regulatory factors that shape how businesses in an industry perform.   

Analyst insights

Plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers follow strict regulations, including those outlined by Environment Canada. Compliance ensures environmental responsibility and mar...

In this chapter

  • External Drivers
  • Regulation & Policy
  • Assistance

Key metrics

  • Regulation & policy level and trend
  • Assistance level and trend

Charts

  • Regulation & Policy historical data and forecast (2014-2029) 
  • Assistance historical data and forecast (2014-2029) 

Detailed analysis

  • Demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing the industry, including Regulation & Policy and Assistance
  • Major types of regulations, regulatory bodies, industry standards or specific regulations impacting requirements for industry operators
  • Key governmental and non-governmental groups or policies that may provide some relief for industry operators.

Financial Benchmarks

View average costs for industry operators and compare financial data against an industry's financial benchmarks over time. 

Analyst insights

Purchases are the most significant cost for plastics and rubber machinery manufacturers. Raw material prices, the most considerable expense, have seen significant volatility ...

In this chapter

  • Cost Structure
  • Financial Ratios
  • Key Ratios

Key metrics

  • Profit margin, and how it compares to the sector-wide margin
  • Average wages, and how it compares to the sector-wide average wage
  • Largest cost component as a percentage of revenue
  • Industry average ratios for days' receivables, industry coverage and debt-to-net-worth ratio

Charts

  • Average industry operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2024
  • Average sector operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2024
  • Investment vs. share of economy

Data tables

  • Liquidity Ratios (2017-2022)
  • Coverage Ratios (2017-2022)
  • Leverage Ratios  (2017-2022)
  • Operating Ratios (2017-2022)
  • Assets (2017-2022)
  • Liabilities (2017-2022)
  • Cash Flow & Debt Service Ratios (2014-2029)
  • Revenue per Employee (2014-2029)
  • Revenue per Enterprise (2014-2029)
  • Employees per Establishment (2014-2029)
  • Employees per Enterprise (2014-2029)
  • Average Wage (2014-2029)
  • Wages/Revenue (2014-2029)
  • Establishments per Enterprise (2014-2029)
  • IVA/Revenue (2014-2029)
  • Imports/Demand (2014-2029)
  • Exports/Revenue (2014-2029)

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in the cost component for industry operators and their impact on industry costs and profitability 

Key Statistics

Industry Data

Data Tables

Including values and annual change:

  • Revenue (2014-2029)
  • IVA (2014-2029)
  • Establishments (2014-2029)
  • Enterprises (2014-2029)
  • Employment (2014-2029)
  • Exports (2014-2029)
  • Imports (2014-2029)
  • Wages (2014-2029)

Top Questions Answered

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What is the market size of the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada in 2024?

The market size of the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada is $3.0bn in 2024.

How many businesses are there in the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada industry in 2024?

There are 996 businesses in the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada, which has grown at a CAGR of 0.7 % between 2019 and 2024.

Has the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada grown or declined over the past 5 years?

The market size of the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada has been growing at a CAGR of 2.3 % between 2019 and 2024.

What is the forecast growth of the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada over the next 5 years?

Over the next five years, the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada is expected to grow.

What are the biggest companies in the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing market in Canada?

The biggest companies operating in the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing market in Canada are Husky Technologies and GN Thermoforming Equipment

What does the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada include?

Producing plastics-working machinery and Performing service, repair and maintenance work on used equipment are part of the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry.

Which companies have the highest market share in the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing in Canada?

The company holding the most market share in Canada is Husky Technologies.

How competitive is the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada?

The level of competition is moderate and increasing in the Plastics & Rubber Machinery Manufacturing industry in Canada.

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Each industry report incorporates data and research from government databases, industry-specific sources, industry contacts, and our own proprietary database of statistics and analysis to provide balanced, independent and accurate insights.

Key data sources in Canada include:

  • Statistics Canada
  • Industry Canada
  • Canadian Business Patterns

Analysts also use industry specific sources to complement catch-all sources, although their perspective may focus on a particular organization or representative body, rather than a clear overview of all industry operations. However, when balanced against other perspectives, industry-specific sources provide insights into industry trends.

These sources include:

  • Industry and trade associations
  • Industry federations or regulators
  • Major industry players annual or quarterly filings

Finally, IBISWorld’s global data scientists maintain a proprietary database of macroeconomic and demand drivers, which our analysts use to help inform industry data and trends. They also maintain a database of statistics and analysis on thousands of industries, which has been built over our more than 50-year history and offers comprehensive insights into long-term trends.

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