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Packaging Industry

Your trusted source for packaging market research, offering detailed packaging industry reports, market sizing, and trend forecasts across the U.S. and global packaging markets. Freedonia delivers expert analysis on materials, formats, and end-use applications, with insights into the food packaging market, disposable packaging market, canning market, industrial packaging, and packaging industry outlook to support strategic decision-making.
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We Have it in the Bag, and So Can You

Packaging is a dynamic market due to the need to address increasing end-user performance requirements and frequently changing consumer preferences, all in an environment heavily focused on keeping costs down while at the same time supplying more sustainable products. Offering an unbiased view of the benefits and risks of packaging materials and markets, as well as key insights to new product releases and how companies are innovating, Freedonia can help you unwrap the constantly shifting packaging market.

How big is the packaging industry?

Packaging is a nearly $200 billion business in the US with almost guaranteed growth due to the wide-ranging need for packaging in all sectors of the economy to contain, protect, and market goods of every type. However, the widespread use and visibility of packaging, especially to consumers, has made it an increasing target of legislation and sustainability initiatives. This will benefit some packaging products but cause others to lose market share. 

 

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What are the key trends in packaging?

Inflation, supply chain challenges, fierce competition, the wide availability of substitute products, raw materials price volatility, powerful end users, and continually increasing end user requirements are key factors facing all packaging producers, distributors and end users:
  • Sustainability is a complex topic that encompasses both a focus on increasing recycling rates and use of recycled content as well as reducing waste in both packaging and end-use products.  
  • Materials competition remains fierce, as companies continue to search for the perfect packaging material while simultaneously moving away from mixed materials, which are not recyclable.
  • E-commerce is driving demand for more and better shipping packaging, and end-users are meeting this trend by changing product packaging to be e-commerce friendly.
  • Despite these myriad pressures, cost and performance still win in packaging choice.
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    This report forecasts to 2029 US active and intelligent packaging demand in nominal US dollars at the manufacturer level. Total demand is segmented by product and market.

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