Prices for flexible packaging materials in Europe showed a mixed development in thethird quarter of 2024, influenced by fluctuations in the availability of raw materials, logistics and international markets. The latest price index data(based on Q4/2020 = 100%) illustrates the dynamic changes in the individual substrates.

Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), the association of flexible packaging manufacturers, is organising the first "European FlexPack Summit" for 2025. This will take place from the 24th to 26th February 2025 in Barcelona and will cover an exciting range of topics relating to global market developments, trends, sustainability issues and current European legislation.

Today, the European Parliament adopted its negotiating position on the Commission proposal for aRegulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR).

The packaging sector is growing, with a forecasted annual growth rate of 1.7% until 2027. New regulations are also driving rapid change and innovation.

The last three months of 2022 saw declines in the price of some flexible packaging materials, as demand stabilised amid continued uncertainty about the global economic outlook and energy costs. 

Plastics Europe, la asociación de fabricantes de plásticos en Europa, y EuPC, la asociación de transformadores europeos de plásticos, anuncian hoy el lanzamiento del esquema de certificación armonizado europeo Operation Clean Sweep® (OCS).

The members of Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) welcome the consideration of the agri-food supply chain as “societally-critical” in the “Save Gas for a Safe Winter” initiative by the EU Commission and its Member States.

Energy and raw material prices were already on very high level but surged even further after the beginning of the war in Ukraine. Those increases combined with availability issues have serious financial impacts on the flexible packaging supply chain.