2018 Global Trends Impacting the Market for Packaging Machinery, published by PMMI – The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, examines market drivers, regional shifts, and technology implications for packaging machinery across a multi-year (2016–2021) forecast using IHS Markit data and industry interviews. The analysis groups focus areas around sustainability and material innovation (recycled content and packaging minimization), flexible-packaging adoption and machine adaptation (pouches versus rigid formats), operational economics and CapEx–OpEx tradeoffs, and workforce development, knowledge capture and documentation, and digital-tool adoption and version control such as serialization and traceability systems. Emerging patterns indicate regional variation and adoption trends; charts highlight comparative benchmarks and scenario outcomes. The report reveals where engineering teams are prioritizing investments to strengthen operational resilience.
Published by PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies in February 2018, authored by Jorge Izquierdo and Paula Feldman. Based on 2016–2017 IHS Markit market data, industry forecasts and PMMI business intelligence (secondary analysis of market statistics and regulatory developments).
