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Colombia Rigid Plastic Packaging Market Analysis

The Colombia Rigid Plastic Packaging Market size in terms of shipment volume is expected to grow from 0.81 Million metric tons in 2024 to 0.97 Million metric tons by 2029, at a CAGR of 3.87% during the forecast period (2024-2029).

In 2023, Colombia emerged as the sixth-largest global market for US agricultural exports, with total exports hitting USD 3.7 billion, as reported by the USDA. With a GDP growth of 0.6% in 2023, Colombia secured its rank as the 43rd-largest economy worldwide and the 4th-largest in Latin America.

• Colombia ranks as the third-most populous nation in Latin America. The country's processed food sales are driven by a tourism surge, evolving consumer lifestyles, and rising urbanization. The growing acceptance of American-style eateries paves the way for Western recipes and ingredients to find a place in Colombian cuisine, propelling the food industry's expansion and the market's growth.

• Middle-to-high-income Colombian consumers are showing a marked preference for convenience products, as reported by the International Trade Administration. The prepared food sector, buoyed by a heightened focus on health, gravitates toward wellness trends. Furthermore, heightened awareness of the benefits of plastic bottles, such as product safety and user-friendliness, has led to a pronounced shift toward rigid plastic packaging solutions.

• In Colombia's cosmetics and personal care sector, the rising demand for rigid plastic packaging can be linked to the booming popularity of e-commerce platforms, enabling customers to shop from virtually anywhere. The International Trade Administration notes that in 2023, Colombia had 39.34 million internet users, making up approximately 75.7% of its population, and securing the fourth spot in Latin America for internet user numbers.

• Colombia is witnessing a growing awareness of the environmental degradation caused by plastic pollution. Acoplásticos reports that Colombia's annual plastic production stands at 1.3 million tons, driven by the burgeoning demand from various industries. However, the heavy reliance on fossil fuels for plastic production and consumption has raised environmental and climate concerns, posing challenges to the market's growth in Colombia.

Colombia Rigid Plastic Packaging Market Trends

Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Segment is Estimated to Have the Largest Market Share

Colombia Rigid Plastic Packaging Industry Segmentation

The scope of the study characterizes the rigid plastic packaging market based on the product's raw materials, including PP, PE, PET, and other raw materials used across various end-use industries such as food, pharmaceuticals, beverage, personal care, industrial, and automotive. The research also examines the underlying growth influencers and significant industry vendors, all of which help to support market estimates and growth rates throughout the anticipated period. The market estimates and projections are based on the base year factors and arrived at top-down and bottom-up approaches.

The Colombian rigid plastic packaging market is segmented by product type (bottles and jars, trays and containers, caps and closures, intermediate bulk containers (IMCs), drums, pallets, and other product types), material type (polyethylene (PE) (LDPE & LLDPE and HDPE), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS) and expanded polystyrene (EPS), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), and other rigid plastic packaging materials), and by end-user industries (food (candy & confectionary, frozen foods, fresh produce, dairy products, dry foods, meat, poultry and seafood, pet food, and other food products), foodservice (quick service restaurants (QSRs), full service restaurants (FSRs), coffee and snack outlets, retail establishments, institutional, hospitality and other foodservice end uses), beverage, healthcare, cosmetics and personal care, industrial, building and construction, automotive and other end-user industries (household products and logistics)). The market sizing and forecasts are provided in terms of volume (tons) for all the above segments.