Packaging

Industry Overview

The next decade will usher in continued change in both consumer and transport packaging. The challenging demands in the area of sustainability, cost reduction, ad improved performance with less material will continue to drive the use of market research in providing companies with the insight to compete and grow in the global packaging industry.

With the continued efforts to make packaging more environmentally friendly, promote less food waste, lower overall costs and adapt to trends in e-commerce, the following trends can be expected:

• Light-weighting of transport packaging to reduce fuel consumption
• Reduction of thicknesses in both paper and plastic to continue to drive source reduction
• Increased barrier to improve shelf-life (multi-layer and laminates)
• Increase in e-commerce will translate into innovative packaging solutions
• Continued growth and improvement in cold chain packaging
• Growth in active/smart packaging
• Continued flexible format replacement of rigid in beverage markets
• Rigid plastics replacing metal cans driven by light-weighting and cost

Priority Metrics Group principals draw on over 60 years of packaging industry experience to provide unparalleled insight into all of our packaging projects. Our projects have focused on packaging technologies (thermoforming, blow molding, injection molding, extrusion, converting, printing, etc.), markets (consumer, transport, e-commerce, retail, industrial, glass, etc.), substrate (paper, flexible plastic, paperboard, molded pulp, rigid plastic, metal, foam, molded plastics, etc.), or application (aseptic, retort, barrier, thermal, active/smart, etc.). Our deep knowledge of packaging makes PMG the choice for your packaging related research.