MPA International – the authority on the Flexible Packaging Industry

Market research on the flexible packaging industry has become an MPA International specialisation. For the past fifteen years we have produced comprehensive biennial studies of the UK Flexible Packaging market. This has enabled us to build and refine an extensive data base of the industry and to fully comprehend the changes that are taking place in this complex market.

The latest report has enabled MPA to further update and refine the flexible packaging industry analysis of previous years and has expanded the scope by assessing the potential for new materials and processes. It also analyses the impact on the market of the changing European ownership structure amongst the suppliers of flexible packaging.

Key within the industry report is the identification of substitution opportunities by flexible packaging in the market place and the impact of new polymer developments. The study includes industry use of flexible materials in single ply, laminate or co-extrusion form, for primary packaging.

The list of materials covered has evolved through previous industry experience and, after careful discussion with flexible packaging manufacturers, it includes aluminium foil, paper, film, wax and adhesive laminations, extrusion coatings/laminations, co-extrusions and metallised paper and film.

We have included an Image Study of suppliers to the industry and this is one means of measuring the response of users of flexible packaging to market changes.

MPA International's methodology for assessing the size and trends of the flexible packaging market has been developed and refined over fifteen years. The process commences with a review of all published industry information on the market, including trade press, libraries, government publications, official statistics and the Internet. The next phase is fieldwork interviews amongst the key manufacturers of flexible packaging to identify market trends, price movements, segmental changes and manufacturer shares. This is followed by further industry interviews with distributors of flexible packaging to ascertain channel shares and margin trends. Finally, the data is checked and report is written by our analysts, all of whom have experience in researching the market.

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