In 2024, packaging across the food, beverages, beauty, home care and pet food industries was defined by a strong shift towards sustainability, convenience and premiumisation. Food and beverage brands adopted flexible formats like pouches, HDPE bottles and folding cartons to support urban lifestyles and smaller households, while also integrating sustainable materials such as recyclable mono-material pouches and recycled PET bottles.
This Packaging in China report offers insight into key trends and developments in the industry. The report also examines trends and prospect for various pack types and closures: metal packaging, rigid plastic, glass, liquid cartons, paper-based containers; flexible packaging.
Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.
This Packaging in China report offers insight into key trends and developments in the industry. The report also examines trends and prospect for various pack types and closures: metal packaging, rigid plastic, glass, liquid cartons, paper-based containers; flexible packaging.
Data coverage: market sizes (historic and forecasts), company shares, brand shares and distribution data.
Why buy this report?
- Get a detailed picture of the Packaging market;
- Pinpoint growth sectors and identify factors driving change;
- Understand the competitive environment, the market’s major players and leading brands;
- Use five-year forecasts to assess how the market is predicted to develop.
Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY- Packaging in 2024: The big picture
- 2024 key trends
- China’s food packaging saw a unified shift towards sustainability and convenience
- Portable packaging is trending in non-alcoholic drinks for on-the-go and environmental reasons
- PET bottles gain ground in alcoholic drinks packaging driven by portability and sustainability
- Rise of e-commerce and eco-consciousness are reshaping beauty packaging
- Blister packs boom due to visibility and protection in home care packaging
- Premiumisation and convenience drive evolution in dog and cat food packaging in China
- Anti-excess packaging rules for leaner designs and reduced hidden costs
- Advancing safe and sustainable packaging through China’s 2024 draft amendments
- Recyclable packaging as part of Mars China’s corporate sustainability drive
- Table 1 Overview of Packaging Recycling and Recovery in China: 2023/2024 and Targets for 2025
