Packaging coatings play a critical role in enhancing the performance, functionality, and sustainability of packaging across various formats including flexible packaging, paper & board, printed labels, and folding cartons. As brands and manufacturers seek to improve product shelf life, visual appeal, and recyclability, coatings provide essential properties such as barrier protection, heat resistance, gloss, and print adhesion. Key to growth is understanding the general performance criteria required for most of the market, which requires in-depth insight on the selection factors of customers (beyond cost and barrier performance). This enables suppliers to identify the bigger growth opportunities.
Now is the optimal time to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the packaging coatings market. The Future of Packaging Coatings to 2030 will be the definitive market study on global flexible packaging adhesives and coatings.
The scope of the study includes:
Now is the optimal time to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the packaging coatings market. The Future of Packaging Coatings to 2030 will be the definitive market study on global flexible packaging adhesives and coatings.
The scope of the study includes:
- Global market demand segmented by key packaging formats, including flexible packaging, paper & board, printed labels, and folding cartons
- Quantify the market for packaging coatings (volume in m² and value in USD) with forecasts through to 2030
- Segment the market by coating chemistry, coating type, packaging format, end-use application, region, and key national markets
- Technology roadmap outlining developments and demand for packaging coatings
- Analysis of coating functions, performance criteria, and the substrates to which coatings are applied
- Critical drivers and trends shaping market evolution through 2030, supported by extensive new primary research
- Subscribers to the multi-client study have the chance to shape the direction of the research.
Smithers Project Team
Keith Jacques - Coatings Expert
Keith Jacques will be responsible for helping develop the key findings in the final report. Keith has many years’ experience in carrying out market research projects on a wide range of topics covering the coatings and raw materials industries; backed up by over 40 years’ industry experience in a variety of roles in technical, sales and marketing and new business development. Keith has worked on many market research projects for the coatings and raw material industries.Bernhard Ehrenreich - Materials Expert
Bernhard Ehrenreich is an accomplished General Manager and Adhesives Expert with significant experience worldwide. His deep experience of the Adhesive space comes from his time as a supplier of specialty polymers (waxes) and additives for the adhesives industry, with focus on the hotmelt area. Bernhard was Vice President, Head of Global Key Account Management at Clariant Plastics & Coatings. Between 2015 and 2019 Bernhard served on the board and executive board of the ACA (American Coatings Association) and CPMA (Color Pigment Manufacturing Association).Neil Rogers - Packaging Expert
Dr. Neil Rogers is an award winning package development consultant. He spent 25 years with the Procter & Gamble Company as their global expert in flexible packaging, sustainability, bottle packing & labeling, open innovation and supplier management. He was elected to the board of the CEFLEX Consortium (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging) and has also worked for Yara International as their only technical packaging specialist for FIBC's & FFS bags. He has extensive experience in R&D, procurement, packing line creation & optimisation, supplier agreements, package specifications, packaging environmental legislation, and patent development with over 25 patent filings.Alistair Irvine - Food Contact Expert
Alistair manages the Food Packaging Safety Section within Smithers. This involves advising clients on the safety legislation which applies to food packaging in a wide range of different countries throughout the world and coordinating work programmes to ensure that clients' products meet these requirements. His expertise spans all EU countries, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Russia and all the South American countries. Alistair graduated with a degree and PhD in Chemistry from Birmingham University. After working for BP and the Department of Health, he joined Smithers in 1994.Barry Podd - Packaging Regulations and Legislation Expert
Dr. Barry Podd gained a BA (Hons) and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Essex. He spent 34 years in Industry in various positions in Research and Development, Marketing, Sales and the Regulatory Affairs Departments and in the Consumer Products Industry as Associate Director of Global Regulatory Affairs responsible for regulatory management issues related to chemicals, biocides and food contact globally. Barry has chaired and participated in a number of Trade Associations, including CEFIC, EDANA and the European Tissue Symposium.
Name Multi-client: The Future of Packaging Coatings to 2030
Date 10/31/2025
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