Unique Content Article: Cap's Off to Plastic Caps and Closures!

<h2 class = 'uawtitle'>Cap's Off to Plastic Caps and Closures!</h2><br />
<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>by Keith Klamer</div><br /><br />
<div class='uawarticle'>Take a minute and examine the top of the next soda bottle, drug vial or toothpaste tube you purchase. Odds are that it's sealed with a plastic cap or other kind of plastic closure device. Stands to reason: plastic caps and closures rule the packaging market. Demand for plastic caps and closures is expected to rise 4.0% to $9.5 billion by 2014, topping 275 billion units.<br />
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Of course, that's great news for those in our industry. Plastic caps and closures, which comprised 79% of unit demand in 2009, will see above-average unit and value advances, reflecting penetration by plastic containers into many new markets. Plastic cap and closure demand is being carried along by the long-standing change in consumer packaging from glass and metal containers to plastic ones.<br />
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Even better, the marrying of plastic caps with paper-based containers and glass bottles will increase growth as well, experts say. However, the bad news is these increases will start slowing from the blistering 1999-2009 pace. This is to be expected because the already deep penetration of plastic containers in most markets can't keep going on forever.<br />
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Future market increases could result from the growing use of more elaborate dispensing and child-resistant closures. Even more market advances will occur from the growing spread of single-serving containers in the beverage industry, and the further spread of plastic containers in product areas which were formerly sold in glass and metal units.<br />
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Drink containers, which comprise more than 50% of demand, are the biggest market for plastic caps and closures. By 2014 beverage containers will undergo below-average gains based on lower consumption of soft drinks, beer and bottled water. This will be offset, however, by faster-than-average growth in pharmaceutical packaging, thanks to a graying population, and the need to adapt packaging to child-resistant, senior-friendly and security-related governmental regulations. <br />
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So here's to you, plastic cap! You are indeed ubiquitous and moving rapidly toward omnipresence!<br />
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New Unique Article!<br />
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Title: Cap's Off to Plastic Caps and Closures!<br />
Author: Keith Klamer<br />
Email: keith@net-ahead.com<br />
Keywords: plastic caps and closures, plastic injection molding, plastics manufacturing, industrial production<br />
Word Count: 309<br />
Category: Marketing<br />
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