Beverage packaging machinery market grows

The market for beverage packaging machinery grew from €20.7bn to €24bn last year, according to the German Food Processing and Packaging Machinery Association.

Production volume

The production volume of packaging machinery in 2010 increased by 7.4 % to €4.75 billion, according to the association. The beverage packaging machinery segment contributed a disproportionately large share of this with almost 15 % more. The production volume here rose to €1.55 billion.

In the beverage production machinery segment, which is strongly marked by large projects including new brewhouse buildings, the production volume of €334 million in 2010 remained about the same as the previous year’s level.

In a statement, the association said that, overall, the beverage machinery segment comprising essentially around 100 manufacturers with 14,000 employees achieved a production volume of some €1.9 billion in the past year. This figure does not include machinery for plastic containers, such as stretch blow moulding machines. These are assigned to plastic machinery for statistical purposes, according to the association.

As PET is the most widely used material in the world for drink containers and beverage machinery components like fittings and pumps are also statistically accounted for elsewhere, beverage machinery sales are probably about twice as high as shown by the pure statistics, said the German assocation.

Future growth

The German beverage machinery sector also sees good prospects for growth in the future. Contributing factors here are the increase in the world population, the growing prosperity in heavily populated regions and the strong product differentiation in saturated markets.

Beverage packaging machinery market grows