Key facts:
- By 2029, the metal packaging industry will be worth over $177 billion
- 2019-22 saw market growth rates of over 8%; this has fallen to a 3% growth rate for 2024-29
- In 2024, cans make up nearly 60% of the total metal packaging market staying stable to 2029.
Find out:
- How metal packaging will be affected by the PPWR
- What impact the changes in opinions towards plastic will have on metal packaging
- What is causing the changes in can production trends
- When the industry can expect to be 100% recyclable
- Which end uses are looking to expand into metal packaging
- How the metal packaging industry will develop in an evolving commercial landscape.
Report definition
The report covers production of cans, which Smithers call fillings, and in certain cases there is the addition of net imports. Inventories are left out as they are usually small and very difficult to quantify in a top-down analysis. For the intensity of fillings comparison, Smithers use fillings per equivalent person or fillings per capita. This is packaging converted plus empty imports minus empty exports. This is not to be confused with consumption, which is usually arrived at from companies providing data on goods sold.
The Smithers methodology
This report is based on extensive primary and secondary research. Primary research consisted of targeted interviews with material suppliers, converters and experts drawn from key markets. This was supported by secondary research in the form of extensive literature analysis of published data, official government statistics, domestic and international trade organisation data, company websites, industry reports, trade press articles, presentations, and attendance at trade events.
Who should buy the report?
- Tinplate and aluminium suppliers
- Metal can converters
- Beverage and food brands
- Industrial packaging and bulk logistics companies
Table of Contents
Executive summary
- Overview
- Market overview
- Industry landscape
- Industry trends
Cutting-edge technology developments
- Metal packaging sectors
- Geographic markets
- Outlook
- Introduction and methodology
- Introduction
- Objectives
- Scope, definitions and market segmentation
- Geographic coverage
- Methodology
- List of abbreviations and definitions
Metal packaging industry landscape
- Overview
- Leading metal packaging companies
- Raw materials
- Equipment and machinery suppliers
- Organic coatings
- Metal packaging products
Metal packaging industry drivers and trends
- Overview
- Sustainability
- Convenience
- Competing formats
- Bisphenol A and organic coatings
- US steel and tariffs
Cutting-edge technology developments
Metal packaging products and coatings markets
- Overview
- Cans
- Metal caps & closures
- Fabricated steel boxes, shipping barrels & drums
- Bulk metal containers/containers for compressed or liquefied gas
- Other aluminium containers
- Metal can coatings
Geographic markets
- Overview
- Western Europe
- Eastern Europe
- Middle East & Africa
- North America
- South & Central America
- Asia
- Australasia
Future opportunities for the metal packaging industry
- Overview
- Opportunities for metal packaging and coatings
Tables
- Transition table for metal packaging, 2024-29
- Metal packaging products covered in the report
- Metal packaging sales by sector and sub sector, 2019, 2024 & 2029 ($ billion)
- Top four countries in terms of filling demand by metal packaging sector/segment, 2023 (volume basis for cans; value basis for other pack types)
- Can filling demand by type and geographic market, 2017 & 2022 (units per capita)
- Forecast can filling demand by type and geographic market, 2023 & 2029 (units per capita)
- Beverage can capacity increases, 2022, 2027 & 2029
- European EPR packaging waste tariffs, 2022
- US packaging steel tariffs and imports, 2016-23
- Global metal packaging sales by type, 2019-29 (million units; $ million)
Figures
- Global packaging sales, 2019-29 ($ million)
- Global metal packaging sales, 2019-29 ($ million)
- Metal packaging sales by region and by sector, 2018-28 (%)
- Trends in metal packaging sales by type and region, 2019, 2021, 2022 & 2029 ($ million)
- Metal packaging value by major national market, 2019-29 ($ billion)
- Consolidation in metal packaging necessary to remain competitive (turnover, $ billion)
- Selected top-25 metal packaging customers, 2022 (turnover, $ billion)
- Selected top-20 metal packaging companies' metal packaging sales, 2022 ($ billion)
- Steel supply for packaging, 2022, est. million tonnes
- Aluminium sheet supply for packaging, 2022, est. million tonnes
- North America beverages: new scanned SKUs by package type, 2017-22
- Western European food can sales by end use, 2022 (% share by value)
- Circular economy system
- EU waste recycling target 2030, less actual recycling % -v- Value $/t value to converter 2021
- Packaging materials recycling rates, 2020
- Climate change Deg-C and forecast based on 2019 emissions
- The UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (issued 2015)
- CO2 - GHG emissions - path to neutrality 2050 for a metal packaging company