Packaging: A Change Continuum

For the packaging industry supply chain, the complexities are also complicated by high raw material costs and an increasing choice of technologies available to the brand manufacturer to package, identify, and decorate products. Margin and cost pressures are creating the need for consolidation and rationalization. In the face of climate change, the desire to use less energy and create fewer VOC emissions is also increasingly becoming a part of the equation—and in some countries now, or soon to be, forced by legislation.