Paperboard industry outlook

The Paperboard Packaging Council (PPC) recently released its annual 2011 Trends: Industry Outlook and Market Data Report, the definitive analysis of what lies ahead for the paperboard packaging industry. The report reflects the partnership of PPC and (RISI), the leading provider of paperboard packaging industry market forecasts and analysis. The report identifies growth markets and analyzes trends for 17 key market segments of the paperboard packaging industry, including beverage, cereal and dairy markets. In this year’s report, five end-use categories were classified as growth markets (those that can expect tonnage shipments to grow by 1.0% per year or more