Global Folding Carton Market Outlook to 2021

Folding carton is the second largest packaging type in the paper and paperboard packaging market. However, the demand growth has remained insipid recently as a result of fierce competition from rigid plastic packaging, microflute, and flexible packaging, according to a new report by Commodity Inside, London, U.K., titled Global Folding Carton Market Outlook to 2021. 

The under-performing tobacco industry and campaigns against sugary products are also proving some major drags on the demand growth, particularly in the European folding carton industry. 

Notwithstanding, Commodity Inside also identified some opportunities and growth pockets that will underpin demand for folding carton over the next five years.

Global Folding Carton Market Outlook to 2021 also examines the implications of invoking Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty on the U.K. and the global folding carton markets. The shocks are assessed by taking into account various variables in a three-dimensional scenario by using time required for negotiations, impact intensity, and impact span.

The Global Folding Carton Market Outlook to 2021 report addresses the following key issues:

• How will folding carton perform over the next five years?
• How folding carton is defending its market position against competitors?
• What major trends, challenges, and developments will emerge over the five years?
• Which end-use sectors will be driving demand for folding carton and what will be the major driving forces in each sector?
• Which regions/countries are the high growth markets and what they will be offering to domestic and multinationals?
• What will be the future performance of the folding carton industry in the matured and developing countries?
• What can we learn from the trade flow of folding carton?
• What will be the implications of Brexit (invoking Article 50) on the folding carton industry?
• Current and future strategies of folding carton producers.

Some major companies covered in the report include:

• AR Packaging
• Graphic Packaging Holding Co.
• Mayr-Melnhof Group
• PaperWorks Industries
• Smurfit Kappa
• WestRock Co.

More information about Global Folding Carton Market Outlook to 2021 is available online.