Agility, resilience and flexibility are the most important characteristics of a food & beverages supply chain, especially in case of fresh vegetables, meat, seafood, fruits etc. Consumer of 21^st century is very different from the consumer of 20^th century. His awareness about freshness, taste and quality of the food he consume has increasingly got highest importance over the year. Open top cans are one of the best solutions that achieved aforementioned consumer requirements. Today open top can stands at top of the fresh & ready to eat food packaging by preference and recyclability. Open top cans are cylindrical shape, made of tinplate or stainless steel.

Consumer wants the packaging in his cart to be the most attractive. Shelf-appeal can be given to fresh food & ready to eat foods in store using open top cans, which can be designed in any shape and printed with lithography or any other attractive printing technology. Open top cans market is expect to witness a healthy CAGR during the forecast period, due to rising consumer awareness and preference towards open top cans. Rising intolerance towards plastic packaging is also making the consumer to shift towards metal packaging, which has 100% recyclability.

Open Top Cans Market: Key players

Some of the players in the global open top cans market are Crown Holdings, Inc., ASA Group, Ardagh Group, Limburg GmbH, Pirlo GmbH & Co. KG, Central Tin Containers, Ltd., Bihlmaier GmbH, Independent Can Company, BALL CORPORATION, Hindustan Tin Works Ltd, Nikita Containers Private Limited, Kaira Can Company Ltd., Karivaradhan Engg. Works, Zenith Tins Pvt. Ltd. and others.

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Open Top Cans: Market Dynamics

Why metal for food & beverage packaging, because its recyclability, sustainability, versatility, durability, strength, secure and hygienic. There is almost no other packaging option as efficient and economical as open top cans. Open top cans market can be divided into organized and unorganized. In unorganized market, small players who have revenues less than US$ 0.5 Mn are manufacturing open top cans, and serve local markets. They also supply to organized market players. The manufactures of open top cans are facing risk of volatile commodity prices. They also lack the availability of modern manufacturing technologies.

Growing innovation in metal fabrication technology is driving the open top cans market. The light weight, sustainable, food grade and cost efficient open top cans can be manufactured using different alloys. Rising intolerance towards plastic has led to the point that some countries are permanently banned plastic e.g. Costa Rica is the first country to completely ban single use plastic packaging products like bags, pouches, sachets, stretch films and shrink wraps.

Open Top Cans Market: Regional outlook

Open top cans market has been segmented on the basis of region into North America, Latin America Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Asia Pacific Excluding Japan (APEJ), Middle East & Africa (MEA), and Japan.  Open top cans market in APEJ is expected to be the fastest growing market due to high demand and preference towards metal packaging.