1. Introduction: Historical Outline and Commercial Background Since the Development of Composites in the Late 30's / Early 40's and its Influence on the Current Status of the Industry, its Applications, Market and Growth - Together With its Future. Section also includes information on the purpose aims and use of the profile. 2. Executive Summary: An Overview of the Industry, Addressing in Addition to the Current Situation, Both the Short-term [5 Year] and Long- [25 Year] Futures. 3. Technology Overview. 3.1. Fundamental principles. A simple easily understood concise 'layman's' explanation of the technology involved, to highlight and explain the reasons for the wide market/application diversity, and hence the growth, importance and current `popularity' of the industry. 3.2. Raw materials: an explanation of the raw materials employed by the industry. 3.3. Fabrication: an explanation of the fabrication technology employed by the industry, including a careful differentiation of `commercial' and `advanced' composites, and the distinct capital-investment differences displayed by the industry. 3.4. Trends: recent years have seen marked changes in both the raw materials and fabrication techniques employed by the composites industry. By promoting changes in the outlook and attitude of the industry, taken together they have an important and vital relationship, to the current status. It is a process which will now accelerate and as a consequence demands careful explanation, examination and comment. 3.5. Standards: increasing maturity and growth has both demanded, and been the result of, a closer attention to quality. That is in turn related to the availability of new and improved Standards and Codes of Practice - as well as the associated stricter statutory health and safety measures. 4. Market Data. 4.1. Market overview: statistical summary, worldwide situation tonnage and value with associated comments. 4.2. Raw material statistics: covers the major raw materials, tonnage and value, 1991, 1992 estimates and forecasts to 1997. 4.3. Thermoset v thermoplastic based: covers tonnage and value 1991, 1992 estimates and forecasts to 1997. 4.4. Market data - thermoset based: statistics broken down in respect of country and market/application, covering tonnage and where possible value, 1991, estimates for 1992 and forecasts to 1997. 4.5. Market data - thermoplastic based: statistics broken down in respect of country and market/application, covering tonnage and where possible value, 1991, estimates for 1992 and forecasts to 1997. 4.6. Industry development: comprising a summary of important company changes, take-overs, amalgamations and allied, together with explanation, and covering the period 1987 to current. 4.7. Legislation: information on legislation as it effects the industry, methods of fabrication, material use etc. relative to all the above market statistics. 5. Company Data. 5.1.
