With sustainability high of thoughts for a lot of industries throughout the globe, a current report from Straits Analysis notes that tumbler has grow to be a broadly most well-liked packaging materials within the meals and beverage business resulting from its neutral-reacting and recyclable properties.
In line with the report, the worldwide glass packaging market measurement was valued at $71.50 billion in 2024 and is projected to achieve from $74.64 billion in 2025 to $105.25 billion by 2033, rising at a CAGR of 4.39% throughout the forecast interval (2025-2033).
The report additional notes that though the glass packaging market is bifurcated into meals, beverage, private care, healthcare, family care, and different end-users, the beverage phase dominates the market and is predicted to exhibit a CAGR of three.98% over the forecast interval.
So far as regional evaluation, based on Straits Analysis, Asia-Pacific is probably the most important world glass packaging market shareholder and is projected to exhibit a CAGR of 5.27% throughout the forecast interval.
“The Asia-Pacific beer packaging business is primarily pushed by shifting cultural traits, increasing populations, urbanization, and the rising recognition of beer amongst youthful generations,” the report states. “It’s anticipated that altering traits will proceed resulting from numerous investments and the enlargement of beer distribution in numerous areas, thereby stimulating the marketplace for glass bottles and containers.”
In the meantime, Europe is estimated to exhibit a CAGR of three.23% over the forecast interval, based on the report.
“As a result of its functionality to stay inert to its contents and secure for shoppers, the European meals and beverage business has broadly adopted this packaging,” it states. “Europe is anticipated to have the quickest-growing demand for glass containers, with the beer business accounting for greater than half of the area’s demand.”
Tim Connors, normal supervisor of Americas North at O-I Glass Inc., Perrysburg, Ohio, says that within the Americas, robust demand for glass packaging is pushed by elevated client choice for sustainable packaging options.
“A current Glass Packaging Client Research discovered that 92% of U.S. shoppers regard glass packaging positively due to its decrease environmental influence,” he explains. “Glass is pure, pure, and infinitely recyclable, which is why it has been used for a lot of many years to guard, protect, and ship meals, drinks, and different merchandise that enrich and maintain our lifestyle.”
So far as efforts being made by gamers within the glass market that help recyclability, Connors says that tumbler is at its greatest when it’s produced, consumed, and recycled domestically.
“To leverage this inherent profit, O-I is working to make glass recycling obtainable in 100% of the communities by which our crops function. To this point, we’ve got achieved this mark in about 96% of our shared communities,” he shares. “As an organization, we promote glass and recycling in partnership with our clients, companions, and throughout our price chain to construct the relationships to maximise the circularity of glass. This native, grassroots method to advancing glass recycling permits us to play to the strengths, sustainability challenges, and values of the native markets.”
Past sustainability, different beverage traits are influencing using glass packaging.
“Glass is greater than a bundle. It’s an expertise,” Connors says. “Glass packaging is clear and showcases the merchandise it protects. Packaging in glass is a communication from manufacturers that they aren’t slicing corners and that buyers can count on the very best expertise when consuming their merchandise.
“The expertise of ingesting a carbonated beverage from a glass bottle is an elevated expertise — from the tactile sensation of choosing up the bundle, to the best way the geometry of the bundle delivers the product, to the artistry of the container — and shoppers have an emotional connection to those experiences,” he continues.
Furthermore, glass packaging is just not solely sustainable, Connors says, however additionally preserves the style and high quality of drinks, making it a most well-liked alternative for manufacturers seeking to differentiate themselves.
“Glass is nonporous and impermeable, that means packaged meals and beverage merchandise don’t work together with their glass containers,” he explains. “Consequently, meals and beverage flavors are unaffected and unaltered. Glass additionally helps shoppers to keep away from potential well being dangers that different packaging might trigger.”
When it comes to what beverage classes are embracing glass packaging, Connors notes that well being and wellness traits have gotten robust drivers out there.
“That is giving rise to new non-alcoholic beverage classes,” he says. “Nonetheless, there may be nonetheless a powerful portion of shoppers that also get pleasure from wine, beer, and spirits and depend on the manufacturers to bundle their favourite beverage in bottles that won’t compromise their style, or expertise when consuming the beverage.”
So far as what’s on the horizon for O-I, Connors explains that the corporate’s focus stays on delivering worth to its clients and sustaining its management place within the glass container business.
“As Gordon Hardie, our CEO, referenced throughout our Investor Day in mid-March in New York Metropolis, we’re targeted on advancing our productiveness and competitiveness by remodeling our value base,” he says. “With this goal, we can showcase the very best bundle within the meals and beverage business and finally work to get our glass containers in lots of extra fingers.”
