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Asia Pacific: Emerging markets to boost demand for corrugated packaging, finds report

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The global corrugated packaging market is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 4.0% during 2014 to 2020, to reach an estimated US$173.6 million by 2020, according to Persistence Market Research.

The corrugated packaging market is thriving mainly due to growing end-user industries, including food, medicine, consumer durables, rubber, and petroleum.

Benefits associated with corrugated packaging such as sustainability and low cost makes it one of the preferred modes of packaging across various industries.

Emerging markets offer growth opportunities for the corrugated packaging market due to increasing population and growing demand for consumer products in these regions.

The e-commerce industry has emerged as one of the key drivers for the global corrugated packaging market.

This is primarily because corrugated packaging is the most reliable form of packaging products in this industry.

However, certain restraints such as low endurance of corrugated packaging and stalled growth across certain end-user industries are affecting market growth.

The market, in terms of competitive structure, is consolidated through large numbers of mergers and acquisitions. This indicates tough sustainability in this market.

Increasing population coupled with rising per capita income is encouraging industrial production worldwide, which, consequently, is increasing the number of shipments.

Owing to low costs and easy handling, corrugated packaging is considered as ideal for shipments across several industries.

Based on the application, corrugated packaging is used in different shapes such as sheets, liner board, boxes, and containerboards.

Based on dimensions of the packaging medium, corrugated packaging is classified as A-flute, B-flute, C-flute, E-flute, and F-flute.

The various application industries that use corrugated packaging include processed food, fresh food and produce, beverages, personal and household care, chemicals, paper products, electrical and electronic goods, glassware and ceramics, and tobacco.

Demand drivers in Asia

Rising population and growing demand for food, medicine, and consumer durable goods in developing countries are driving the demand for packaging products in these regions.

Low costs and high benefits of corrugated packaging have made them one of the most preferred packaging solutions across an array of industries in these regions.

Food and healthcare are among the fastest growing industries in China that use corrugated packaging. The processed food sector in China is growing at a rate of over 10%.

Electrical equipment and machinery (a key end-user for the corrugated packaging market) market in China is growing at over 11%.

Indonesia is another emerging economy with a large number of food processing companies.

This, in turn, is driving the corrugated packaging market.

China, Japan, India, and Indonesia are the major corrugated packaging material producers in Asia Pacific. The US leads the corrugated packaging material production in North America while the European market is dominated by Italy, France, Germany, Spain, the UK, and Poland.

Brazil and Turkey feature among the leading corrugated packaging material producers in rest of the world.

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