Towards the end of the third quarter disillusionment was the prevailing mood in the market for aluminium packaging. Although there was no concrete reason for concerns across the various segments - the seasonal slowdown was more or less already included in players’ planning - the majority of EUWID respondents operating in the packaging segment were far from euphoric about business developments. Further real impulses are not on the cards for the remainder of 2012, merely some cosmetics companies have by comparison got a large number of relaunches planned for certain product groups in the imme-diate future.
