Flexible Packaging Leads the Way

Challenges

The flexible packaging market faces some continuing challenges. The pressure on materials prices is likely to continue, with a resultant squeeze on margins.

In addition to the sustained high cost of crude oil, Corey Reardon, president and CEO of AWA, believes there is global instability in certain raw materials costs that is "likely to be a long-term problem due to a serious lack of capacity in some key raw materials."