PMMI Estimates 3.9 Percent Growth In Machinery Shipments

Yuska noted that market segments with the greatest demand for packaging machinery were food (37.9 percent of sales), beverage (22.3 percent) and pharmaceutical/medical device (9.9 percent). “Those three end-use markets account for 70 percent of total shipments,” he explained. “It’s slightly lower than in 2006, because the spending in the pharmaceutical and beverage markets slowed.”