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Pet Food Packaging

Pet food packaging focused on sustainable materials

Consumers are paying close attention to where their pets’ food comes from—and what it’s packaged in. The pet food packaging segment is stepping up to meet the industry’s needs.

Pet Food Packaging

Market trends: Sustainable petfood packaging

The US demand for petfood packaging is expected to rise 4.8% annually to US$2.5 billion in 2018, according to Ohio-based market research firm The Freedonia Group Inc. That demand is being driven by the need for more advanced packaging—higher-value, more sophisticated packaging that meets the expectations of an ever-growing market overall and the premium petfood market in particular. As consumers become increasingly involved in their pets’ well-being, and become more educated in where their pet products are coming from, specific packaging issues come to light. One of those issues is sustainability.

Pet Food Packaging

Using the 7 R’s to develop more sustainable petfood packaging

Paul Kearns, Director of Sustainability at Exopack LLC, explains how sustainable packaging can be implemented in the petfood industry. See his full presentation from Petfood Forum 2011.