E-Commerce Protective Packaging: United States Report

Report Overview

This report forecasts to 2030 US e-commerce protective packaging demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level. To illustrate historical trends, total demand is provided in annual series from 2019 to 2025.
All products covered in the scope of this report are disposable and designed for single or limited use in protecting goods in transit. The focus is on products that directly mitigate physical or environmental risks during distribution from the manufacturing location to the end user.
The following products are excluded from this report active insulated shipping containers employing electricity or other power sources to maintain a temperature-controlled environment inside an insulated enclosure ; corrugated boxes and other primary shipping containers other than insulated containers; load stabilization products like molded fiber cradles and corrugated load stabilization systems; pallets, skids, and other logistics platforms as well as pallet covers, stretch and shrink wrap, strapping, and other load-securing accessories used primarily for pallet unitization; retail packaging such as blister packs and clamshells; reusable transport packaging systems (e.g., returnable plastic containers, reusable totes, reusable dunnage systems); packaging used solely for long-term storage or facility-level protection rather than transit; packaging components that serve primarily as retail display or merchandising structures
Key macroeconomic indicators are also provided with quantified trends. A full outline of report items by page is available in the Table of Contents.

Related NAICS Codes

Table of Contents

• Historical Trends
• Key Economic Indicators
• Sustainability Initiatives

• Industry Characteristics

• Scope
• Sources
• Industry Codes
• Freedonia Methodology
• Resources

• Figure 1 | US E-Commerce Protective Packaging Demand Trends, 2019 – 2025
• Table 1 | Key Indicators for US E-Commerce Protective Packaging Demand; 2019, 2025, 2030 (2023US$ bil)
• Figure 2 | US E-Commerce Protective Packaging Demand; 2019-2025, 2030 (US$ mil)
• Table 2 | US E-Commerce Protective Packaging Demand; 2019, 2025, 2030 (US$ mil)
• Table 3 | NAICS & SIC Codes Related to E-Commerce Protective Packaging
• Table 4 | HS Codes Related to E-Commerce Protective Packaging