Containers, including light plastic containers, PET bottles, carton and packs, paper cups, aluminum and steel cans, glass bottles, chilled cups, and coffee cups sold at CVS counters

Manufacturers

I   Perspectives and Strategies of Container Market

• Shift to Business that Determine Price from Needs and Values
• Container Market as a whole should change the way to determine pricing
• Progress is seen in the market as some parts of facilities have stopped to attain optimization of balanced supply and demand
• High-valued containers are expected to raise the brand values

II   Perspectives and Strategies of Light Plastic Container Market

1. Market Perspectives for PSP Containers
2. Market Perspectives for Light PP Containers
3. Light PET Containers Market
4. Light PS Containers Market

• Perspectives and Strategies at 7 manufacturers

III   Perspectives and Strategies of PET Bottle Manufacturers

• Threatened by in-house manufacturing of preform PET bottles by the beverage makers, PET bottle manufacturers are required to accelerate promotion of new products that have benefits of lightness or have barrier functions.
• Manufacturing of PET bottles by Inline-blow molding now occupies 70%
• Volume of barrier PET bottles shipped is likely to exceed 1 billion by 2016
• Sales volume of mechanically recycled PET bottles expanded in 2015, so that some kind of regulation is required in exporting of used PET bottles
• Perspectives and Strategies at 7 manufacturers

IV   Perspectives and Strategies of Paper Container Manufacturers

1. Market Perspectives for Carton Pack for Liquid

• With their aims to go on the market, many manufacturers have developed new types of containers which may improve value from the users' viewpoints.
• With expectation of the milk market having bottomed out, production of mild have increased its size to 100.5% from the same month of the previous year.
• Perspectives and Strategies at 5 manufacturers

2. Paper Cup Market Outlook

• Due to decline in the shipment of containers for yogurt in FY2014, the market perspectives in FY2014 are not clear.
• Paper cups for FF continues declining, some FF have shifted to plastic cups
• Due to increasing number of shops opened, paper cups for coffee shop chains are　　on the rise.
• With more introductions of barrier cups and lightproof cups, those cups for functional yogurt are increasing.
• Sales of Paper cups for soups and cup noodles in FY2015 are likely to be end up with similar size as the previous fiscal year.
• Perspectives and Strategies at 5 manufacturers

3. Paper Container Market Outlook

• Paper and cardboard products have grown in 2014 both in volume and value
• Unit price has been kept steadily for the recent several years
• Domestic shipment volume of cardboards for paper containers in FY2014 were about the same level as the previous fiscal year
• Trends in each demand: food, beverages, medical products, cosmetic products, soaps & detergents, commercial printings, etc.
• Trends at 2 manufacturers

V   Perspectives and Strategies of Aluminum Can/Steel Can Manufacturers

1. Perspectives of Aluminum Can/Steel Can Markets

• While canned coffees shifting to aluminum SOT cans have been almost completed, steel cans manufacturers need to take positive measures for re-expansion

2. Aluminum Can Market Outlook
3. Steel Can Market Outlook

• Perspectives and Strategies at 6 manufacturers

VI   Perspectives and Strategies of Glass Bottle Manufacturers

• In 2015 one-way small glass bottle market for premium beer have gained ground
• Many single hit products have emerged and the market have been supported by the shopping spree of cosmetics
• The beer bottle market in 2015 is likely to attain 140% of the size in the preceding year
• Not only Nikka, but the entire domestic whisky market is on the rise, rapidly raising the whisky bottle market
• Suppliers for premier beer seems to gain benefits in 2015
• One-way small bottles for the unprecedented new demands have contributed to growth of shipment at TOYO GLASS
• Health and beauty demands have increased sales of the products made of coconut oil and wild-sesame oil
• Increased shipment of Mason jars which have been used as some kind of gifts at large food and beverages makers and department stores and other logistics industry
• Perspectives and Strategies at 3 manufacturers

VII   Perspectives and Strategies by Manufacturers of Chilled Cups for Beverages

• With emerge of cups that can be used for microwave ovens, new application development can be expected.
• Perspectives and Strategies at 2 manufacturers

VIII  Perspectives and Strategies by Manufacturers of Coffee Cups Sold at CVS Counters

• The market size of coffee cups sold at CVS counters are likely to attain a little less than 1.8 billion cups
• CVS can be the main channel of over-the-counter cups
• Perspectives and Strategies at 2 manufacturers