Freedonia publishes authoritative packaging market research reports covering packaging materials, formats, technologies, and end-use applications. Each packaging industry report delivers market sizing, five-year forecasts, segmentation, and packaging industry analysis. Our packaging research supports manufacturers, distributors, and brand owners with insights on the global packaging market, U.S. packaging industry, and industrial packaging market trends.
Freedonia’s packaging industry market research spans the full range of packaging materials and applications, including:
This segmentation provides a comprehensive view of both the U.S. packaging industry and the global packaging market, including structural trends and competitive shifts across sectors.
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Each packaging report provides historical data, market size, packaging forecasts, segmentation, competitive analysis, and packaging market trends. Reports examine materials competition, regulatory impacts, technological innovations, and sustainability initiatives affecting packaging producers and end users.
The global food packaging industry alone represents an over $300 billion market. The global packaging market size continues to expand due to demand across food, industrial, and consumer sectors. Our packaging market analysis includes regional and world packaging market data, with forecasts for both mature and emerging economies.
Key packaging market trends include sustainability (recycling, lightweighting, reduced waste), materials competition, and e-commerce-driven packaging innovation. Industrial packaging market trends highlight the shift toward more durable and efficient shipping solutions. Cost and performance remain decisive factors in packaging selection despite evolving environmental and regulatory pressures.
Our clients include packaging manufacturers, converters, distributors, raw material suppliers, and brand owners. They rely on Freedonia Group’s packaging industry research and packaging market expertise to guide strategy, product development, and market positioning.
Foodservice operators are continually balancing cost, convenience, performance, and sustainability, making a detailed understanding of disposable packaging demand more important than ever.
This report forecasts global demand for e-commerce packaging by product, market, and major world region in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level for 2023 and 2028.
This report analyzes how shifting consumer habits, sustainability initiatives, and regulations are reshaping US disposables demand. Discover which product types, materials, and markets are poised for the fastest growth through 2030.
This report forecasts to 2027 US protective packaging demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report forecasts to 2030 US protective mailers demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report forecasts to 2030 US e-commerce protective packaging demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report forecasts to 2030 global demand for protective mailers by material and major world region in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report forecasts to 2030 global demand for e-commerce protective packaging by major world region in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report forecasts to 2030 US mailers demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report forecasts to 2030 global demand for unit dose pharmaceutical packaging by product and major world region in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report examines how tighter regulations, patient-safety priorities, and changes in drug manufacturing are driving global demand for unit dose pharmaceutical packaging. It highlights the product formats and regional markets expected to deliver the strongest growth through 2030.
US demand for mailers is forecast to through 2030, supported by continued e-commerce parcel growth and a shift toward higher-value protective formats. The most important structural change is accelerating adoption of curbside-recyclable, mono-material paper protective mailers (padded paper and heavy-duty unpadded), which is pressuring mixed-material incumbents as shippers formalize recyclability into procurement requirements
This report forecasts to 2030 US plastic bottle demand in nominal dollars at the manufacturer level. Total demand is segmented by market in terms of: beverage plastic bottles, food plastic bottles.
This report forecasts to 2030 pharmaceutical demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level in Canada.
This report forecasts to 2029 US pharmaceutical packaging demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level.
This report forecasts to 2030 global demand for pharmaceutical packaging by product and major world region in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level. Product segments include: bottles and jars, blister packaging, prefillable syringes and cartridges, parenteral vials and ampoules, IV containers and bags, boxes and cartons, prefillable inhalers, pouches, tubes, other packaging products such as strip packs, aerosol cans, and plastic stick tubes
This report forecasts to 2030 pharmaceutical demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level in Europe.