All professionals in the corrugated cardboard industry are watching where the market is headed. What are the latest technological developments and what is expected of a sector like ours?
One of the most important challenges facing the packaging and cardboard industry until 2020 will be the enhancing sustainability. According to Packaging Cluster, "this push towards sustainable packaging practices and a circular economy will be a key influence factor, focal point and primary reference point for the packaging supply chain’.
Within this framework, the next 24th, 25th and 26th of October will be held in Barcelona Sustainability in Packaging Europe providing participants with the opportunity to broaden their knowledge of:
- The circular economy and packaging sustainability
- Packaging design
- Recovery and recycling
The corrugated cardboard comes from a renewable raw material, adapts to all kinds of forms when designing packaging and to complete the circular cycle, it is recovered again through recycling. This clear advantage of cardboard packaging over other materials has increased their interest among society, increasingly concerned about the sustainability of the products they consume and their impact on the environment.
In addition to sustainability, as we have already indicated in other posts on our blog, growing development of virtual stores has made it possible for a large part of the population to shop online. Online stores offer us the possibility to buy whatever we want and wait for it at home, and at home it comes in the form of cardboard box.
The luxury products sector is another market that offers great opportunities, since cardboard is the most used material for packaging in this flourishing sector. The capacity of Carton industry to adapt to changes in demand with personalized immediate delivery boxes is today the key to the long-term success of the packaging industry.
