2009 Packaging Trends Survey
Money is on Americans’ minds, and financial uncertainty is affecting packaging priorities and plans in North American food and beverage plants, as this year’s Food Packaging Trends Study indicates.
Belt tightening characterizes today’s packaging department, with 45 percent of survey respondents saying fewer capital expenditure projects will be undertaken this year at their plants. One in four plan to install new lines this year, down sharply from the go-go days of 2007, when almost twice as many Food Engineering readers polled were putting in new lines.
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