The German plastic packaging market: raw material supply is back to normal

The mood in the market for rigid plastic packaging dampened in mid-October. Order books for containers and tubes remained well filled on the whole, according to EUWID respondents. However, in view of the poor economic outlook and the declining purchasing power of end consumers, producers of plastic tubes in particular...

In most areas of application, plastics apparently release fewer greenhouse gases than alternatives. This is the result of a study by the consulting firm McKinsey, New York. The study comprised 14 plastic products from various application areas, including six types of packaging, and compared them with common,...

For manufacturers of flexible plastic packaging, the first half of 2022 was characterised by strong demand on the one hand, but also by difficulties in the supply chain on the other. According to some interviewees, demand was high from the food sector, and increasingly also from bulk consumers. Furthermore, good demand...