Folding Cartons: Fighting on Several Fronts

Tony Petrelli, vice president, marketing and business development for Caraustar Industries, says 2005 “was another tough year for the folding carton industry. Although we are seeing more and more of the mill capacity in the industry being reduced, it was still extremely difficult to obtain carton price increases.” He attributes this difficulty, in part, to “the purchasing leverage of the large consumer packaged goods companies [which] kept the increases at a minimum, if any.”