Geosynthetics

US geosynthetics demand will reach $2.1 billion in 2012 based on rebounding road and highway construction and other public works spending. High-performance products such as geomembranes, geogrids and preformed geocomposites will outpace less costly types. Value demand will grow the fastest in the transportation infrastructure market.

This study analyzes the $1.7 billion US geosynthetics industry. It presents historical demand data for the years 1997, 2002 and 2007, and forecasts for 2012 and 2017 by product (e.g., geotextiles, geomembranes, geogrids, geonets, clay liners, preformed), market (e.g., construction, transportation infrastructure, landfills, liquid containment) and US geographic region.

The study also considers market environment factors, details industry structure, evaluates company market share and profiles 41 industry players, including Gundle/SLT Environmental, Propex and CETCO.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION PAGE INTRODUCTION ix I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 1 II. MARKET ENVIRONMENT 4 General 4 Macroeconomic Environment 4 Demographics 9 Construction Trends 12 Construction Expenditures 13 Construction Stock 16 Building Construction Trends 20 Residential Construction 22 Nonresidential Construction 25 Nonbuilding Construction Trends 27 Highway Spending 29 Agricultural Trends 31 Mining Outlook 34 Environmental & Regulatory Issues 36 Pricing Trends 38 Foreign Trade 40 Imports 42 Exports 44 World Market 46 Western Europe 47 Asia/Pacific 48 Other Regions 49 III. PRODUCTS 52 General 52 Area Demand 53 Value Demand 55 Geotextiles 59 Demand by Type 62 Nonwovens 64 Product Characteristics 66 Producers 68 Wovens & Knits 69 Product Characteristics 70 Producers 72 Demand by Market 73 Geomembranes 75 Demand by Market 77 Product Characteristics 79 Polyethylene Materials 80 All Other Materials 81 Producers 84 Geogrids 84 Demand by Market 86 Product Characteristics 87 Geonets 88 Other Geosynthetics 91 Geosynthetic Clay Liners 93 Demand by Market 94 Product Characteristics 95 Preformed Geocomposites 96 All Other 98 Geocells 98 Geofoams 99 Miscellaneous Geosynthetics 100 Geosynthetics Demand by Material 101 IV. MARKETS 105 General 105 Area Demand by Market 106 Value Demand by Market 109 Construction 112 Demand by Product 114 Market Characteristics 116 Stabilization & Reinforcement 116 Drainage & Filtration 117 Erosion & Sedimentation Control 118 Transportation Infrastructure 121 Demand by Product 122 Market Characteristics 123 Landfills 126 Demand by Product 127 Market Characteristics 129 Liquid Containment 130 Demand by Product 131 Market Characteristics 133 Other Markets 134 Demand by Product 135 Market Characteristics 136 V. REGIONS 139 General 139 Regional Demographics & Economic Trends 140 Population Patterns 140 Economic Outlook 142 Construction Activity 144 Geosynthetics Demand by Region 147 Northeast 150 New England 152 Middle Atlantic 153 Midwest 154 East North Central 157 West North Central 158 South 159 South Atlantic 163 East South Central 165 West South Central 166 West 167 Mountain 171 Pacific 172 VI. INDUSTRY STRUCTURE 174 General 174 Industry Composition 175 Market Share 179 Competitive Strategies 182 Research & Development 185 Marketing 186 Distribution 188 Mergers & Acquisitions 189 Cooperative Agreements 191 Company Profiles 193 ADS Incorporated 195 Agru America Incorporated 197 Alcoa Incorporated 198 AMCOL International Corporation 199 Armortec, see CONTECH Construction Products Barrier-Bac, see Strata Systems Belton Industries Incorporated 201 Bridgestone Corporation 203 Burke Industries, see Mannington Mills Carthage Mills Erosion Control Company 204 Colbond, see Low & Bonar Colloid Environmental Technologies, see AMCOL CONTECH Construction Products Incorporated 206 Cooley Group Holdings 208 Dow Chemical Company 210 DuPont (EI) de Nemours 211 Environmental Fabrics Incorporated 213 Environmental Protection Incorporated 214 Fiberweb plc 216 Firestone Building Products, see Bridgestone Gundle/SLT Environmental Incorporated 218 Hallaton Incorporated 220 Hanes Geo Components, see Leggett & Platt Huesker Synthetic GmbH 221 In-Line Plastics LC 223 JPS Industries Incorporated 224 Leggett & Platt Incorporated 225 Low & Bonar plc 227 LyondellBasell Industries AF SCA 229 Mannington Mills Incorporated 230 Maple Textile, see Wellstone Mills Nilex Incorporated 231 North American Green, see Tensar Plastatech Engineering Limited 233 Poly-America LP 234 Poly-Flex, see Poly-America Presto Products, see Rank Group Propex Incorporated 236 Rank Group Limited 238 Raven Industries Incorporated 239 Reef Industries Incorporated 241 Royal Ten Cate NV 242 Saint-Gobain 245 SKAPS Industries 247 Solmax International Incorporated 248 Soprema SA 249 Strata Systems Incorporated 250 Tenax International BV 251 Tensar Corporation 254 Thrace Plastics Company SA 257 Watersaver Company Incorporated 259 Wellstone Mills LLC 260 Other Companies Mentioned in the Study 261 LIST OF TABLES TABLE NUMBER PAGE SECTION I -- EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Summary Table 3 SECTION II -- MARKET ENVIRONMENT 1 Macroeconomic Indicators 9 2 Population & Households 12 3 Construction Expenditures 16 4 Construction Stock 19 5 Building Construction Expenditures 22 6 Residential Building Construction Expenditures 25 7 Nonresidential Building Construction Expenditures 27 8 Nonbuilding Construction Expenditures 29 9 Highway Spending by Type 31 10 Agricultural Indicators 34 11 Mining Materials Handled 35 12 Geosynthetics Pricing Trends 40 13 Geosynthetics Foreign Trade 42 SECTION III -- PRODUCTS 1 Geosynthetics Area Demand 55 2 Geosynthetics Value Demand 57 3 Geotextile Demand by Type 64 4 Nonwoven Geotextile Demand 66 5 Woven & Knit Geotextile Demand 70 6 Geotextile Demand by Market 74 7 Geomembrane Demand 77 8 Geogrid Demand 86 9 Geonet Demand 91 10 Other Geosynthetics Demand 92 11 Geosynthetics Demand by Material 104 SECTION IV -- MARKETS 1 Geosynthetics Area Demand by Market 108 2 Geosynthetics Value Demand by Market 111 3 Construction Geosynthetics Demand 113 4 Transportation Infrastructure Geosynthetics Demand 122 5 Landfill Geosynthetics Demand 127 6 Liquid Containment Geosynthetics Demand 131 7 Other Markets Geosynthetics Demand 135 SECTION V -- REGIONS 1 Population by Region 142 2 Gross Domestic Product by Region 144 3 Construction Expenditures by Region 147 4 Geosynthetics Demand by Region 149 5 Northeast Geosynthetics Demand 152 6 Midwest Geosynthetics Demand 157 7 South Geosynthetics Demand 163 8 West Geosynthetics Demand 171 SECTION VI -- INDUSTRY STRUCTURE 1 Geosynthetics Sales for Selected Companies, 2007 177 2 Selected Acquisitions & Divestitures 190 3 Selected Cooperative Agreements 192 LIST OF CHARTS CHART NUMBER PAGE SECTION II -- MARKET ENVIRONMENT 1 World Geosynthetics Demand, 2007 47 SECTION III -- PRODUCTS 1 Geosynthetics Demand by Area & Value, 2007 58 2 Geomembrane Demand by Material, 2007 83 3 Geosynthetics Demand by Material, 2007 104 SECTION IV -- MARKETS 1 Geosynthetics Area Demand by Market, 2007 108 2 Geosynthetics Value Demand by Market, 2007 111 SECTION V -- REGIONS 1 Geosynthetics Demand by Region, 2007 150 SECTION VI -- INDUSTRY STRUCTURE 1 Geosynthetics Market Share, 2007 180

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1 INTRODUCTION

2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS DEMAND (million square yards)

3 MARKET ENVIRONMENT

3.1 General

3.2 Macroeconomic Environment

Table | MACROECONOMIC INDICATORS (billion 2000 dollars)

3.3 Demographics

Table | POPULATION & HOUSEHOLDS (million people)

3.4 Construction Trends

3.4.1 Construction Expenditures

Table | CONSTRUCTION EXPENDITURES (billion 2000 dollars)

3.4.2 Construction Stock

Table | CONSTRUCTION STOCK (billion 2000 dollars)

3.5 Building Construction Trends

Table | BUILDING CONSTRUCTION EXPENDITURES (billion 2000 dollars)

3.5.1 Residential Construction

Table | RESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION EXPENDITURES (billion 2000 dollars)

3.5.2 Nonresidential Construction

Table | NONRESIDENTIAL BUILDING CONSTRUCTION EXPENDITURES (billion 2000 dollars)

3.6 Nonbuilding Construction Trends

Table | NONBUILDING CONSTRUCTION EXPENDITURES (billion 2000 dollars)

3.7 Highway Spending

Table | HIGHWAY SPENDING BY TYPE (billion 2000 dollars)

3.8 Agricultural Trends

Table | AGRICULTURAL INDICATORS

3.9 Mining Outlook

Table | MINING MATERIALS HANDLED (million tons)

3.10 Environmental & Regulatory Issues

3.11 Pricing Trends

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS PRICING TRENDS (dollars per square yard)

3.12 Foreign Trade

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS FOREIGN TRADE (million dollars)

3.12.1 Imports

3.12.2 Exports

3.13 World Market

3.13.1 Western Europe

3.13.2 Asia/Pacific

3.13.3 Other Regions

4 PRODUCTS

4.1 General

4.2 Area Demand

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS AREA DEMAND (million square yards)

4.3 Value Demand

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS VALUE DEMAND (million dollars)

4.4 Geotextiles

4.4.1 Demand by Type

Table | GEOTEXTILE DEMAND BY TYPE (million square yards)

Table | NONWOVEN GEOTEXTILE DEMAND (million square yards)

Table | WOVEN & KNIT GEOTEXTILE DEMAND (million square yards)

4.4.2 Demand by Market

Table | GEOTEXTILE DEMAND BY MARKET (million square yards)

4.5 Geomembranes

Table | GEOMEMBRANE DEMAND (million square yards)

4.5.1 Demand by Market

4.5.2 Product Characteristics

4.5.3 Producers

4.6 Geogrids

Table | GEOGRID DEMAND (million square yards)

4.6.1 Demand by Market

4.6.2 Product Characteristics

4.7 Geonets

Table | GEONET DEMAND (million square yards)

4.8 Other Geosynthetics

Table | OTHER GEOSYNTHETICS DEMAND (million square yards)

4.8.1 Geosynthetic Clay Liners

4.8.2 Preformed Geocomposites

4.8.3 All Other

4.9 Geosynthetics Demand by Material

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS DEMAND BY MATERIAL million square yards)

5 MARKETS

5.1 General

5.2 Area Demand by Market

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS AREA DEMAND BY MARKET (million square yards)

5.3 Value Demand by Market

Table | GEOSYNTHETICS VALUE DEMAND BY MARKET (million dollars)

5.4 Construction