The container glass industry continues to break records. After the impressive results achieved in 2021, the sector has not stopped its run: the production in fact marked an increase of 3% both in tons and units in the first half of 2022, compared to the same period of the previous year.
The numbers of success
Considering the total sales of glass containers, the calculated increase was instead equal to 8% in tons and 8,5% in units. This is the highest growth rate recorded since the first half of 2016. In particular, the data collected by FEVE (European federation of glass packaging manufacturers) detect a difference in assets of 1,5 million tons (+14,2%) and 5,3 billion units (+13,0%) in the total sale of glass for containers, in the comparison between the first half of 2022 and the first half of 2016.
The growing confidence of European consumers towards glass containers is fully repaid by an industry capable of supporting an unprecedented increase in market demand and investing in its production potential, despite the dramatic impact of energy price increases on companies in the sector.
An increase, it must be said, which draws sustenance from the recovery of the food sectors, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, which are fundamental both for the European economy and for the Italian one.
Source: feve.org
