Protective Packaging: United States Report

Report Overview

This report forecasts to 2030 global demand for protective packaging by product category, market, and major world region in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level. Product categories include inner packaging, including protectors, inserts, trays, cushioning, void fill, and loose fill; protective containers, including mailers, and insulated containers and liners; load and surface protection, including dunnage bags and surface protection materials
Reported markets encompass durable goods manufacturing, nondurable goods manufacturing,
e-commerce, retail and other markets, such as moving companies
Major world regions include North America, Western Europe, Asia/Pacific, and all other regions.
To illustrate historical trends, world, product category, market, and regional demand (including product category and market segments) are provided for 2019 and 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
For any given historical year, US dollar amounts are obtained from values expressed in the applicable local currency. These local currency values are converted to US dollars at the average annual exchange rate for that year. For forecast years, the US dollar amounts assume the same annual exchange rate at that prevailing in 2025.
Other various topics, including profiles of pertinent leading companies, are covered in this report. 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

• Product Categories
• Markets

• Industry Characteristics
• Market Leaders

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

• Figure 2 | US Protective Packaging Demand Trends, 2019 – 2025
• Table 1 | Key Indicators for US Protective Packaging Demand; 2019, 2025, 2030 (2023US$ bil)
• Figure 3 | US Protective Packaging Demand by Product Category; 2019, 2025, 2030 (US$ bil)
• Table 2 | US Protective Packaging Demand by Product Category; 2019, 2025, 2030 (US$ mil)
• Figure 4 | US Protective Packaging Demand by Product Category; 2019, 2025, 2030 (%)
• Figure 5 | US Protective Packaging Demand by Market; 2019, 2025, 2030 (US$ bil)
• Table 3 | US Protective Packaging Demand by Market; 2019, 2025, 2030 (US$ mil)
• Figure 6 | US Protective Packaging Demand by Market; 2019, 2025, 2030 (%)
• Table 4 | Selected Companies with Protective Packaging Production Facilities in the US
• Table 5 | NAICS & SIC Codes Related to Protective Packaging
• Table 6 | HS Codes Related to Protective Packaging