The IK regularly conducts a quarterly survey of member companies to assess the current economic situation the IK-economic trend, and in individual sections benchmarks are performed. These results are only available to the participating member companies.
In addition, the IK publishes the production statistics and a foreign trade statistics.
The IK-economic trend is the industry barometer of the plastic packaging industry All IK-members are asked quarterly about their current assessment of the industry's development.
Excerpt from the current IK economic trend:
Source: IK; Balance: Proportion of positive reports minus proportion of negative reports
The detailed results of the IK economic trend are made available only to IK member companies.