Expert's Opinion

Food-Safe Printing Inks to Grow Faster than the Food Packaging Market

The market for food-grade inks was $1.83 billion in 2016, and is growing at 6.0% per year.

Food packaging will grow at a faster rate than the overall packaging market from 2016 to 2021, at 3.0% CAGR in real value and print area. Food-safe inks will also grow at a fast rate in the coming years, as pressure from brand owners and regulators sees them adopted in larger amounts of food packaging, according to Smithers Pira.   Special food-grade inks are increasingly used in printing for food packaging to ensure there is no contamination of the product when they are used correctly, ensuri...

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