This report assesses the global and regional markets for adhesives used in packaging materials and products, and analyses the key external and internal market drivers to 2030.
Key facts:
- The global market for packaging and label adhesives in 2025 is 7.2 million tonnes, worth $21.6 billion
- Over the next five years this market is forecast to grow by 3.5% CAGR in value terms, reaching $25.7 billion by 2030.
Packaging is the largest end-use application within the global adhesive industry with around 40% share of total adhesive consumption. Packaging adhesives are used for a variety of packaging formats; from smaller primary packaging for individual items, to the more robust secondary packages constructed from corrugated board that are used to consolidate and protect smaller packages. Packaging adhesives are also used to affix product and supply chain labels.
Definition:
This report assesses the global and regional markets for adhesives used in packaging materials and products. It primarily includes adhesives which are used for package construction (to secure seams and closures); for securing additional components such as labels, lidding, etc; and as laminating adhesives to produce flexible, multilayer films or foils.
Key Questions:
- How will urbanisation and e-commerce trends affect demand for packaging adhesives?
- What is the impact on the market of rising production and energy costs?
- What are the innovations in adhesive technologies and how will they impact packaging design over the next five years?
- What are the biggest challenges facing the market for packaging and label adhesives?
This report is essential to:
- Raw material suppliers
- Packaging converters and producers
- Adhesives manufacturers
- Brand owners and retailers
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Introduction and methodology
- Introduction
- Scope
- Report objectives
- Methodology
- Data
- Definitions
- Abbreviations
Key market drivers and trends
- Introduction
- Adhesive industry structure
- External market drivers
- Economic trends
- Global trade tensions
- Population growth
- e-Commerce
- Raw material costs and availability
- Regulations
- Packaging waste
- Extended Producer Responsibility
- EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation
- Regulations on adhesive raw materials
- Adhesives for food packaging
- Internal market drivers
- Sustainable packaging
- Packaging lifecycle
- Raw materials
- Adhesives
- Plastic packaging
- Biopolymers
- Paper and card
- Manufacturing
- Transport and In-use
- End of life
Packaging adhesives market by technology
- Introduction
- Packaging adhesive performance requirements
- Packaging adhesive technologies
- Waterborne adhesives
- Acrylic-copolymer adhesives
- VAE adhesives
- PVAc adhesives
- Natural-based adhesives
- Other waterborne
- New waterborne developments
- Vinyl acetate monomer/ethylene
- Acrylates
- Solvent-borne/reactive systems
- Acrylics
- Synthetic elastomers
- Polyurethanes
- Hot melt adhesives
- EVA
- Polyolefins
- Synthetic elastomers
- Polyurethane
- Polyamide
- Bio-based hot melts and sustainability
- Radiation-curable adhesives
Packaging adhesives market by packaging type
- Introduction
- Rigid packaging/labels
- Corrugated board packaging
- Composite cans/containers
- Rigid plastic container
- Labels/lidding
- Adhesive technologies for rigid packaging/labels
- Waterborne adhesives
- Hot melt
- Others
- Flexible packaging
- Multilayer structures
- Seal layers
- Adhesive technologies for flexible packaging
Packaging adhesives market by end-use application
- Overview
- Food packaging applications
- Food packaging groups
- Fresh and processed meat, poultry, and fish
- Fresh fruit and vegetables
- Frozen and chilled food
- Ready meals
- Cereals
- Other dried foods
- Savoury snack foods
- Confectionery
- Bakery products
- Dairy products
- Tinned and preserved food
- Baby food
- Other foods
- Pet food
- Beverages
- Beverage packaging groups
- Bottled water
- Carbonated soft drinks
- Fruit juice and juice drinks
- Hot beverages/other soft drinks
- Alcoholic drinks
- Non-food
- Non-food packaging groups
- Cosmetics and personal care products
- Household products
- Healthcare products
- Other non-food products
- Industrial products
Packaging adhesives market by geographical region
- Overview
- Regional packaging format markets
- North America
- Packaging formats
- Adhesive technologies
- Waterborne
- Solvent-borne/reactive adhesives
- Hot melt adhesives
- Radiation-curable adhesives
- End-use applications
- Western Europe
- Packaging formats
- Adhesive technologies
- Waterborne
- Solvent-borne/reactive adhesives
- Hot melt adhesives
- Radiation-curable adhesives
- End-use applications
- Asia-Pacific
- Packaging formats
- Adhesive technologies
- Waterborne
- Solvent-borne/reactive adhesives
- Hot melt adhesives
- Radiation-curable adhesives
- End-use applications
- Rest of the World
- Eastern Europe
- South and Central America
- Middle East and Africa
Figures
- Real GDP growth, selected regions (Annual percent change)
- Global rate of inflation from 2018 to 2028 (CPI%)
- TFR (total fertility rate), globally and by region, 1950-2100
- Share of urban population worldwide in 2025, by region
- Growth in megacities up to 2050
- Growth in global e-commerce retail sales from 2021 to 2027 ($ trillion)
- Global price of energy index (2016 = 100)
- Basket of Raw Materials-Index January 2020=100 vs. Selected R/M Component Prices.
- Global plastic waste per annum (million tonnes)
- The butterfly diagram: visualising the circular economy
- Packaging lifecycle
- ISCC certification logo
- Bioplastic wrap based on NatureFlex for drinking chocolate
- Global packaging adhesives demand by technology, share by volume, 2025 (%)
- Global packaging adhesives demand by technology, share by value 2025 (%)
- Global packaging/label adhesives use by category, share by volume 2025 (%)
- Global packaging/label adhesives use by category, share by value 2025 (%)
- Automated handling on e-commerce distribution line
- Adhesive lamination process schematic
- Heat sealing process for flexible packaging
- Paper flexible packaging for dried foods based on LEIPAbarrier ECO
- Rigid packaging adhesives demand by end-use 2025 (%)
- Flexible packaging adhesives demand by end-use 2025 (%)
- Global packaging adhesives demand evolution by geographic region, 2020, 2025, 2030 ('000 tonnes)
Tables
- Trends in the global packaging adhesives market, 2025-30
- Global population, by region, 2020-30 (millions)
- The world's top 10 online marketplaces
- Leading 10 e-commerce markets in the world
- Global packaging adhesives use, by technology, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global waterborne packaging/label adhesive usage by resin type, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global solvent-borne/reactive systems packaging/label adhesive usage by resin type, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global hot melt packaging/label adhesive usage by resin type, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global radiation-curable packaging/label adhesive usage by resin type, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global packaging/label adhesives use, by category, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global rigid packaging/label adhesive usage by pack format ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global rigid packaging/label adhesives use, by technology, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global flexible packaging adhesive usage by pack format ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Performance properties of components of flexible packaging multilayer structures
- Global flexible packaging adhesives use, by technology, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global packaging adhesive usage by end-use application, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Rigid packaging adhesive usage by end-use application, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Flexible packaging adhesive usage by end-use application, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Food packaging adhesives use, by pack format, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Food packaging adhesives use, by end application, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
For each product types:
- Packaging adhesives use, by pack format, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
List of product types:
- Meat, poultry and fish
- Fresh fruit and vegetables
- Frozen and chilled food
- Ready meals
- Cereals
- Other dried foods
- Savoury snack food
- Confectionery
- Bakery products
- Dairy products
- Tinned and preserved food
- Baby food
- Other foods
- Pet food
- Beverage
- Plastic bottle recycling rates in selected countries
- Carbonated soft drink consumption, top 10 countries per capita consumption
- Beverage packaging adhesives use, by end application, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
For each product types:
- Packaging adhesives use, by pack format, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
List of product types:
- Bottled water
- Carbonated soft drinks
- Fruit juice and fruit drinks
- Hot beverages/other soft drinks
- Alcoholic drinks
- Non-food
- Cosmetics/personal care
- Household products
- Healthcare products
- Other non-food products
- Industrial products
- Non-food packaging adhesives use, by end application, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global packaging adhesives use, by geographic region, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Global packaging adhesives use, by pack format by region, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
For each region:
- Packaging adhesives use by national market, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Packaging adhesives use by pack format by country, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Packaging adhesives by technology, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Waterborne packaging adhesives use by national market, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Solvent-borne/reactive systems packaging adhesives use by national market ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Hot melt packaging adhesives use by national market, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Radiation cure adhesives use for packaging by national market ('000 tonnes, $ million)
- Packaging adhesives use by end-use sector, 2020-30 ('000 tonnes, $ million)
List of regions:
- North America
- Western Europe
- Asia-Pacific
- Eastern Europe
- South and Central America
- Middle East and Africa