Paper Packaging

Paper Packaging: Global Industry Guide is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the paper packaging industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, textual analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, and profiles of the leading companies. This incisive report provides expert analysis on a global, regional and country basis.

Scope of the Report

• Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and segmentation

• Provides textual analysis of the industry's prospects, competitive landscape and profiles of the leading companies

• Covers Global, European, Asia-Pacific & 5 individual country markets

• Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

Highlights

The global paper packaging market generated total revenues of $213.7 billion in 2005, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.3% for the fiveyear period spanning 2001-2005.

Containerboard sales proved the most lucrative for the global paper packaging market in 2005, generating total revenues of $139.9 billion, equivalent to 65.5% of the market's overall value.

Looking forward, the market is forecast to decelerate its current performance, with an anticipated CAGR of 4.5% for the five-year period 2005-2010 expected to drive the market to a value of $266.5 billion by the end of 2010.

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Definition

The paper packaging market consists of the production of paperboard and containerboard with paperboard defined as comprising boxboard, linerboard and packaging papers. The market is valued at manufacturers selling price (MSP) while market volumes represent production output. Any currency conversions used in this report have been calculated using constant 2005 annual average exchange rates. For the purposes of this report, Europe consists of Germany, France, Italy, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Belgium, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland and Luxembourg.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China and Japan.

The Americas consists of the US only.

The global market consists of Europe, Asia-Pacific and the Americas.