Industry Reports

The premium and ultra-premium segments of just about every beverage category have experienced very strong growth in recent years. Mid-tier brands, particularly in the spirits industry, have been refreshing their packaging to present a more premium image through enhanced labels, more sophisticated closures, and eye-catching, shelf ready packaging.  Consumers’ increasing desire for natural and organic products has driven the increased use of glass bottles and cartons – two containers with a healthier and environmentally friendly image among most consumers. PMMI's 2018 Beverage Trends report features robust information on consumer trends, retail trends regulations and manufacturing and supply chain and should serve as your guide to today's Beverage Industry.

Most people involved with the cannabis industry are aware of the risks, especially in terms of legal status, but believe the potential rewards out-weigh them. Overall, there is a belief that cannabis will become a main-stream, but heavily regulated, product in the U.S. in the next 10 years, like alcohol and tobacco. Large food and beverage companies are eying the market and positioning themselves to be ready to move once the federal threat is removed. In the meantime, because processing, packaging and retail must be state-specific, suppliers to the cannabis industry must have local teams that understand the regulations and peculiarities of each market. Cannabis manufacturers are actively looking for equipment and technology OEMs to aid them with implementing new processes and technologies, especially in automation. Many opportunities exist to form strong and lasting relationships with these manufacturers – especially for the OEMs that offer technical guidance and are willing to take on a bit of risk.

The PMMI 2017 Evolution of Automation Report presents the automation challenges, opportunities, advantages and solutions from interviews with end users, OEMs and technology suppliers. Their collective voice provides insight into powerful resources such as real-time data collection, edge computing and cloud analytics that are now all possible through the expansion of automation technology. Download the Executive Summary today. 

The PMMI 2017 Trends Shaping Meat, Poultry, and Seafood Market Segment Report focuses on the operational changes and future equipment needs in the processing and packaging of meat, poultry, and seafood products.

Categories represented include fresh, frozen, canned, deli, ready- to-eat (RTE), individual quick frozen (IQF), and preserved.

The report analyzes intelligence from the experiences and opinions of professionals in manufacturing, operations, engineering, maintenance, processing, packaging, senior management, and procurement.

The next fifteen years might bring significant changes to food manufacturing and sourcing, such as shorter supply chains because of transportation expense, growth of local production, stronger competition for land use as food, fuel and fiber battle for space and benefits of microtechnology and nanotechnology for more sustainable production of food and improved taste.  Many of these changes can be attributed to a changing consumer landscape, for example a growing middle class – expected to double by 2030, with Asia as a significant consumer of value-added nutritional food, changing consumer habits, such as on-the-go eating and clean labels, with 37% of U.S. consumers finding it important to understand ingredients on food labels.

Faced with the regulatory challenges of Serialization and Unique Device Identification (UDI) and pressure to produce at low cost, healthcare manufacturers are looking at new equipment to replace outdated production lines. Nearly half of healthcare manufacturers interviewed continue to replace legacy equipment and buy new equipment while two-thirds of participating companies predict spending more on capital equipment in the next 12–24 months. In this latest Business Intelligence report, sixty industry professionals from pharmaceutical, medical devices and contract service companies share their experiences in complying with tracking regulations, operational challenges and their future equipment needs.

Produced by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the Global Trends Impacting the Market for Packaging Machinery Whitepaper provides you with an indicator of the global market for packaging machinery.
Discover the major factors and trends impacting growth and regional variances of the global packaging machinery market and other insights when you download this report.