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Flexible packaging sales revenue forecast to rise 3.4% this year

The Flexible Packaging Assn. predicts U.S. sales revenue to reach $27.3 billion this year. Also, raw materials pricing supplants the economy as the primary concern of survey respondents.

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Specifically, sales revenue is expected to increase 3.4% to $27.3 billion this year, up from $26.4 billion. The FPA reports that flexible packaging represents about 18% of the estimated $143 billion U.S. packaging market.

Flexible packaging employs more than 79,000 people in the U.S., according to the FPA, and includes flexible packaging products used for retail and institutional food and nonfood applications, industrial applications, shrink and stretch films, retail shopping bags, consumer storage bags, wraps, and trash bags. Flexible packaging’s compound annual growth rate from 1999 to 2009 is reflected in Figure A. Looking beyond flexibles, FPA points out that corrugated represents the largest packaging segment, followed by flexible packaging, and then rigid plastics and bottles.

This year’s “State of the Flexible Packaging Industry Report” is based on information provided by FPA members in the FPA 2009 “State of the Industry Survey,” and by nonmembers in the “FPA Industry-Wide Converters Survey.” Additional sources of information include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Foreign Trade Division, and other authoritative sources.

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