Trends in Healthcare Packaging

The healthcare industry is being driven by multiple factors and growth drives such as increasing chronic diseases, changing lifestyles, ageing population, and unhealthy environment conditions etc. Apart from these, there are many other factors which account for the same. With the growth of the healthcare industry, the demand for the healthcare products also increases, which catapults the growth of the pharmaceutical packaging industry as well. The recent trends in pharmaceutical packaging involves increasingly stringent rules and regulations which is expected to increase the performance of the packaging machines and at the same time the cost effectiveness becomes an important parameter to attain an overall sustainable growth. Global Pharmaceutical Healthcare Packaging Market. The global pharmaceutical packaging market (primary and secondary packaging) was valued at over $47 billion in 2010 and is forecasted to grow at around 6% a year to reach $58 billion by 2014.