Biodegradable Lidding Films Market

Biodegradable Lidding Films: A Great Alternative to the Traditional Plastics, Used Within the Food Lidding Films

FMI predicts that biodegradable lidding films provide customers with a ‘no-touch’ cooking solution, allowing them to take food products directly from the freezer to their use. In recent years, the middle-level income population with comparatively higher disposable capital income has increased, and most of the population these days prefers using biodegradable products.

Since most of the working population prefers to consume healthy processed food, the market for Biodegradable Lidding Films is expected to foresee significant growth.

A report from Future Market Insights suggests that currently, the Biodegradable Lidding Films are experiencing significant adoption amongst various industries, across the globe. Nowadays, consumers are more interested in buying processed food products including frozen foods, prepared meals, meat products, and others directly from the supermarket.

These films are made from a certified compostable structure, which is a great alternative to the traditional plastics used within the food-lidding films that often end up in landfill sites across the globe.

In addition, these films are thermoplastic aliphatic materials, that are derived from renewable resources called Polylactic acid or polylactide, shortly named PLA, and can biodegrade under the presence of oxygen. Biodegradable Lidding Films are used for the packaging of prepared food, tablets, and in syrup bottles.

Advantages of Biodegradable Lidding Films:

Convenience

Consumers can see the product that they're purchasing clearly through the film while keeping the package intact. Also, peel and reseal lidding film allows customers to completely reseal their produce packaging with ease.

Impact

Rather than being limited to a label on a container, the lidding film has a large surface area that can enable innovative branding and maximum shelf impact.

Protection

The lidding film offers high barrier protection capabilities with the use of speciality films in production. Barrier-protected film keeps produce fresh for longer and extends the shelf life of a product.

Security

In addition to being able to reseal the product completely, you can integrate traceability software into lidding film with the help of our specialized equipment department.

Sustainability

The lidding film uses up to 25% less plastic than a traditional clamshell. At Associated, we also offer fully recyclable and sustainable film options for lidding film.

In the food industry, Biodegradable Lidding Films provide customers with a ‘no-touch’ cooking solution, allowing them to take food products directly from the freezer to their use. This aspect of cooking helps in avoiding product contamination.

Trends such as the growing popularity of packaging in trays and speciality containers, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), retort packaging applications and others are expected to drive the Biodegradable Lidding Films market substantially in the near future.

Biodegradable Lidding Films Market Overview

The Global Biodegradable Lidding Films market is correlated to the significant presence of organized retail and wholesale sector across the world. Biodegradable materials are plastic films whose raw material is vegetative such as corn starch, tapioca products or sugarcanes.

These thermoplastic aliphatic materials are derived from renewable resources called Polylactic acid or polylactide, shortly named PLA, and can biodegrade under the presence of oxygen. Biodegradable Lidding Films are used for the packaging of prepared food, tablets, and in syrup bottles.

Market Overview

Biodegradable Lidding Films currently are experiencing significant adoption amongst various industries, across the globe. Nowadays, consumers are more interested in buying processed food products including frozen foods, prepared meals, meat products, and others directly from the supermarket.

Also, in recent years, the middle-level income population with comparatively higher disposable capital income has increased, and most of the population these days prefers using biodegradable products. Since most of the working population prefers to consume healthy processed food, the market for Biodegradable Lidding Films is expected to foresee significant growth.

In the food industry, Biodegradable Lidding Films provide customers with a ‘no-touch’ cooking solution, allowing them to take food products directly from the freezer to their use. This aspect of cooking helps in avoiding product contamination. Thus, Biodegradable Lidding Films facilitate improved food safety, and this particular factor will add to the growth of the market during the assessment period.

Trends such as the growing popularity of packaging in trays and speciality containers, modified atmosphere packaging (MAP), retort packaging applications and others are expected to drive the Biodegradable Lidding Films market substantially in the forecast period.

Market Dynamics

Across the globe, major manufacturers in the film packaging industry are focusing on manufacturing Biodegradable Lidding Films these days. Similarly, maximum users in the frozen foods and meat products packaging industry across the globe are focusing on reducing their carbon footprint.

There is a great demand for Biodegradable Lidding Films owing to customer inclination towards the use of clean materials and an increase in health awareness. Also, in many countries, the government is encouraging the use of biodegradable products across various industries. These are a few of the major reasons driving the Biodegradable Lidding Films market.

There are some restraints in the Biodegradable Lidding Films market, which are hindering the prospective growth. Fluctuating raw material prices have become a serious issue for manufacturers of Biodegradable Lidding Films. Varying prices of film materials, printing inks, and seal types are hampering the profitability of value chain participants in the global lidding film manufacturing industry.

Additionally, the manufacturing cost is also affected by currency fluctuations. Changes in global supply and demand, fluctuations in the market, exchange rates, government controls and other factors may affect the raw material prices of Biodegradable Lidding Films, particularly in the European countries where the production cost is high because of the high cost of polymers.

Market Segmentation

Global Biodegradable Lidding FilmsMarket is mainly classified on the basis of application, seal type, the material used, and geographies.

On the basis of the application of Biodegradable Lidding Films, the global Biodegradable Lidding Films market is segmented into fresh meat, fish, poultry, sausages and cured meat, cooked meat, cheese, sauces and soups, ready meals, processed products, and non-food products.

On the basis of seal type, the Biodegradable Lidding Films market can be segmented as TruSeal – permanent (weld) seal, RePeel – multi-use seal, and TruPeel – peelable seal.

On the basis of materials used, the Biodegradable Lidding Films market can be segmented as CAPFILM PP, CAPFILM PE, and CAPFILM PET.

On the basis of geographies, the market is segmented across 7 key regions:

• North America
• Latin America
• Western Europe
• Eastern Europe
• Asia Pacific Excluding Japan
• Japan
• Middle East & Africa

Biodegradable Lidding Films have significant applications in the frozen food industry, for providing safe and hygienic coverage to the packages. Since Europe is the major region, followed by North America in terms of the market for frozen food; the Biodegradable Lidding Film market in the European and North American regions is expected to grow considerably. With a continuously growing population, this market is expected to grow in other regions including Asia Pacific, and Japan as well.

Key Market Players

Some of the major players active in the global Biodegradable Lidding Films market include Rockwell Solutions, Quantum Packaging, SealMAX, Source One Packaging, Xpert Packaging Inc., Clondalkin Flexible Packaging, Innovia Films Inc., American Profol Inc., International Paper and Plastic, Huhtamaki, National Flexible, NJB PACKAGING, and others.

Since the adoption of biodegradable products has increased significantly across most of the markets and industries, overall it can be concluded that the growth prospect of the lidding films industry in reference to biodegradable products, is promising.

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• North America (U.S., Canada)
• Latin America (Mexico, Brazil and Rest of Latin America)
• Western Europe (Germany, Italy, France, U.K, Spain, Nordic countries, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Rest of Western Europe)
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• Japan
• Middle East and Africa (GCC, S. Africa, and Rest of MEA)

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