Sundblad: US plastics industry has approximately 16,000 factories
Willem Sundblad · Embracing American Dynamism to Upgrade Manufacturing Production With Oden CEO Willem Sundblad · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Apr 19, 2024 · at 29:11
Willem Sundblad, CEO of Oden Technologies, breaks down factory market sizes across the US, Europe, and Asia using the plastics industry as a benchmark.
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“So you'd have about 16,000 factories in the U.S. In the plastics industry alone. Out of those, and Europe is about the same, Asia is about the size of U.S. And Europe combined.”
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