Industry Insights: Top Trends in Packaging 2025

Industry Insights: Top Trends in Packaging 2025

Summary

This report looks at the key trends that will define the packaging sector in 2025: food contact, commercial optimization, emissions reduction, refillables, and artificial intelligence.

Material and machinery innovations will define which companies perform well within these top trends. Innovations that improve the hygiene, cost efficiency, and sustainability of packaging will be crucial in 2025. Companies should pay close attention to changing consumer preferences/behaviors and new regulations across various jurisdictions that encourage or mandate specific packaging practices.

Scope

• Reusable packaging collection infrastructure must be designed to meet the size and space requirements of retailers.
• Packaging machines should be designed so as to minimize flat surfaces and corners in which moisture can accumulate and breed microbes.
• Shelf life extension can deliver upon both improved hygiene and cost efficiency.
• Lightweighting packaging can deliver on both sustainability and cost optimization priorities.

• Understand how packaging material and machinery companies are innovating to adapt to the key trends that will define packaging in 2025.
• Understand how new regulations will change the packaging industry.
• Gain a broader appreciation of the fast-moving consumer goods industry by gaining insights from both within and outside of your sector.
• Access valuable strategic take-outs to help direct future decision-making and inform new product development.