Container Glass Market Outlook - 2030
The global container glass market size was valued at $82.2 billion in 2020, and is projected to reach $155.9 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6.7% from 2021 to 2030. The expansion of pharmaceutical packaging applications and advancements in glass manufacturing technology are key drivers of the container glass market. The pharmaceutical industry increasingly relies on container glass for vials, ampoules, and bottles due to its superior chemical inertness, ensuring the safe storage and transport of sensitive medications and vaccines.
Introduction
Container glass refers to a type of glass specifically designed for holding, storing, and packaging various products, such as food, beverages, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. This form of glass is predominantly used in the production of bottles, jars, and other forms of packaging containers. The primary qualities of container glass include its strength, impermeability, and the ability to be molded into different shapes, making it suitable for diverse packaging needs. It is made primarily from silica sand, soda ash, and limestone, with additional materials used to enhance its properties such as color and durability. Container glass can also be recycled efficiently, which makes it an environmentally sustainable choice for packaging.
Market Dynamics
Container glass or glass container constitutes boron trioxide and silica as main glass-forming constituents. It has very low coefficient of thermal expansion (around 3×10−6 per Kelvin at 20 degree Celsius). Soda-lime-silica-based, also known as soda-lime glass is among the most prevalent type of glass. It possesses excellent significant properties such as chemical stability, extreme workability, high melting temperature, and thermal shock resistance that makes it best suited for manufacturing windowpanes, glass containers, and commodity items in foods & beverages, pharmaceuticals, décor, and other end-use sectors.
Rise in demand for packed food & beverage items has led to rise in demand for soda-lime-silica-based glass for storage of a wide range of food ingredients. This acts as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the container glass market for soda-lime-silica-based. Moreover, growth in population has led to rise in the building & construction sector where soda-lime-silica-based glass is used in windowpanes, owing to their hardness and ease of workability. In addition, factors such as cheap and easy availability has made customers more linear toward using soda-lime-silica-based glass for a wide range of applications including manufacturing bottles, drinking glasses, and glass bake ware. This is anticipated to increase sales of soda-lime-silica-based glass among various end-use sectors; thus, creating lucrative opportunities for the market. All these factors collectively surge demand for container glass, thereby augmenting the global market growth.
However, container glass is manufactured by annealing process in which different air polluting compounds such as sulfur dioxides, nitrogen oxides, and other harmful particulates are released. Exposure of these harmful compounds at high concentrations cause severe respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, mucus secretion, and lungs cancer. Moreover, particulates released during the final stage of container glass manufacturing are even more dangerous as they are smaller in size (around 10 micrometer or even smaller) and cause several health-related disorders, once they enter the respiratory tract. These factors are projected to hamper the container glass market growth during the forecast period.
On the contrary, increase in weight of container glasses as compared to plastic and other materials of same dimension has led customers to become more linear toward using other materials for storage and packaging applications. However, emergence of lightweight container glass enables cost saving by significantly reducing the amount of raw material used in manufacturing container glass. Moreover, cost of transportation is reduced, owing to lightweight of new materials. This factor is anticipated to offer new opportunities in the global container glass market trend.
Segment Overview
The container glass market is segmented on the basis of glass type, forming method, end-user, and region. On the basis of glass type, the market is categorized into borosilicate-based and soda-lime-silica-based. On the basis of forming method, it is categorized into blow & blow, press & blow, and narrow neck press & blow. The end-users covered in the study include foods & beverages, cosmetics & personal care, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and others. Region wise, the market is studied across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and LAMEA.
Container Glass Market Analysis, By Region
The Asia-Pacific container glass market accounted for 43.3% of the market share in 2020, and is projected to grow at the highest CAGR of 7.3% during the forecast period. Utilization of container glass in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, foods & beverages, and chemical manufacturing is the major key market trend in Asia-Pacific. Proliferating demand for packed food items where container glass is used for packaging and storage of a wide range of food items for loner durations boost the container glass market size in Asia-Pacific.
By Region
Asia-Pacific is projected as the fastest growing segment
Container Glass Market, By Glass Type
In 2020, the borosilicate-based segment was the largest revenue generator, and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 6.8% during the forecast period. Increase in research and development (R&D) activities in the biomedical sector for producing highly efficient products has led to rise in laboratory activities where borosilicate-based container glass is widely used in flasks, reagent bottles, and others. This act as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the borosilicate-based container glass.
By Glass Type
Borosilicate-based glass type is the most lucrative segment
Container Glass Market, By Forming Method
In 2020, the press & blow segment was the largest revenue generator, and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 6.7% during the forecast period. Increase in disposable income and busy lifestyles contribute toward growth of the foods & beverages sector, where blow & blow forming method-based narrow glass containers are widely used for storage of food items. This acts as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the glass container market.
By Forming Method
Narrow neck Press and Blow forming method is projected as the fastest growing segment
Container Glass Market, By End Use
By end-use, the food & beverages segment dominated the global market in 2020, and is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of 6.6% during forecast period. Container glass is extensively used in the foods & beverages sector, owing to its properties such as reuse, recycling, and chemical stability. It is used to preserve a wide range of food items for longer durations. Glass containers such as jars and wide & narrow neck bottles are used for storage of different food & beverage products.
By End-use
Pharmaceutical end-user is projected as the fastest growing segment
Competitive Analysis
The major companies profiled in the container glass marke report include Amcor Limited, FrigoGlass, Owens-Illinois Inc., Consol Glass Pty Ltd., Central Glass Co. Ltd., Vitro, S.A.B de C.V., Vidrala, Hindusthan National Glass.
Key Benefits For Stakeholders
- Porter’s five forces analysis helps analyze the potential of buyers & suppliers and the competitive scenario of the industry for strategy building.
- It outlines the current market trends and future estimations of global container glass market from 2020 to 2030 to understand the prevailing opportunities and potential investment pockets.
- The major countries in the region have been mapped according to their individual revenue contribution to the regional market.
- The key drivers, restraints, and opportunities and their detailed impact analysis are explained in the study.
- The profiles of key players and their key strategic developments are enlisted in the report.
Container Glass Market Report Highlights
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Analyst Review
The global container glass market is expected to exhibit high growth potential, owing to its use in foods & beverages, cosmetics & personal care, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals. Increase in research and development (R&D) activities in the biomedical sector for producing highly efficient products has increased laboratory activities where borosilicate-based container glass is widely used as flasks and reagent bottles. This acts as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the container glass market for borosilicate-based glasses. Increase in demand for packed food & beverage items has increased demand for soda-lime-silica-based glass for storage of a wide range of food ingredients. This acts as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the container glass market for soda-lime-silica-based glasses. Moreover, growing population has increased growth of the building & construction sector, where soda-lime-silica-based glass is used in window panes, owing to their hardness and ease of workability. This fuels growth of the container glass market for soda-lime-silica-based glass in the building & construction sector.
Rise in disposable income and busy lifestyles contribute toward the growth of the foods & beverages sector, where blow & blow forming method-based narrow glass containers are widely used for storage of food items. This acts as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the glass container market. Moreover, increasing trends for using reusable bottles have led a backward shift from plastic bottles to glass bottles in the industry. This acts as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the container glass market for press & blow method.
Increase in demand among food & beverage sector and escalating demand from pharmaceutical sector are the key factors boosting the container glass market growth.
The global container glass market forecast was valued at $82,210.6 million in 2020, and is projected to reach $1,55,926.6 million by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 6.7% from 2021 to 2030.
Amcor PLC, FrigoGlass, Owens Illinois Glass Inc., Consol Glass Pty Ltd., Vitro, Vidrala, Hindusthan National Glass and Industries Ltd., Gerresheimer AG, DWK Life Sciences GmbH, and Toyo Glass Co. Ltd. are the most established players of the global container glass market.
Food & beverage industry is projected to increase the demand for container glass.
The global container glass market is segmented on the basis of glass type, forming method, end user, and region.
Increase in disposable income and busy lifestyles are contributing toward growth of the foods & beverages sector where blow & blow forming method-based narrow glass containers are widely used for storage of food items. This acts as one of the key drivers responsible for growth of the glass container market. Moreover, rise in R&D activities has increased demand for glass-based flasks and tubes made from the blow & blow forming methods in laboratories, industries, and other end use sectors. This propels growth of the container glass market during the forecast period.
Food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care, and pharmaceutical applications are expected to drive the adoption of container glass market.
The global container glass market has been negatively impacted due to COVID-19 pandemic.
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