Plastic food containers to increase.As long as Americans keep eating, the demand for food containers should be steady to upward. Research company The Freedonia Group, Cleveland Cleveland, former county, England Cleveland, former county, NE England, created under the Local Government Act of 1972 (effective 1974). It was composed of the county boroughs of Hartlepool and Teeside and parts of the former counties of Durham and , forecasts a 3.3 percent annual food container growth rate through 2011, with both rigid plastics and pouches growing in market share. The research firm cites "performance attributes and heightened demand for smaller package sizes" as reasons that pouches and plastic containers "will continue to supplant sup·plant tr.v. sup·plant·ed, sup·plant·ing, sup·plants 1. To usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics. 2. paperboard paperboard, material similiar in shape and composition to paper, but generally thicker, stronger, and more rigid. Paper machines, e.g., Fourdrinier machines, are used to make sheets of paperboard. , metal and glass counterparts." The company's report, titled "Food Containers: Rigid & Flexible," forecasts 3.3 percent annual growth in the dollar amount spent on food packaging between 2006 and 2011, a slight dip dip, in agriculture, method of treating animals (chiefly livestock) infested with skin parasites such as mites, ticks, and warbles. The animal is dipped into or forced to swim through a tank filled with an insecticide solution. from the 3.9 percent annual growth experienced between 2001 and 2006. In the five-year forecast, dollars spent on rigid plastic containers are expected to increase 6.3 percent yearly, while spending on pouches will also grow, but by 4.4 percent, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Freedonia study. Spending for paperboard packaging is predicted to grow at a more modest 1.6 percent per year, while spending on metal containers will also grow slowly--at 0.7 percent per year. Spending on glass containers, meanwhile, is predicted to drop by 1.5 percent per year. More information on the study is available at www.freedoniagroup.com. |
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