The bag-in-bottle packaging was introduced by Gaplast GmbH, a Germany-based manufacturer of packaging solutions, especially for cosmetic products. Bag-in-bottle packaging is a development proposed as a solution for airless dispensing. The bag-in-bottle market has high penetration in the cosmetics industry while the packaging is adapted for pharmaceutical and homecare products also. The global market for aerosol packaging for cosmetics was valued at around US$ 2 Bn in 2017 and the expected to get double over a decade. This signifies an ample opportunity for the global bag-in-bottle market.
Global Bag-in-Bottle Market: Dynamics
The end-user preference has been influenced by the benefits of bag-in-bottle packaging which includes high barrier packaging of aluminum foil or other high barrier plastics, prevention from contamination by atmospheric oxygen or air, continuous pressure in dispensing the primary product without addition of pressurized gases, low investment in the production of bottle for bag-in-bottle and much more. The bag-in-bottle packaging is a development introduced for airless dispensing which reduces the four-part production process and manual assembly to single part production packaging system. This has resulted in 60% of the saving in energy and investment as compared to the production of conventional four-part airless packaging.
Also, has driven the bag-in-bottle market at the suppliers‘ end. Despite significant investment saving possibilities with the bag-in-bottle packaging, the bag-in-bottle market is expected to witness sluggish growth due to the requirement of investment for replacing the conventional airless packaging production line with the bag-in-bottle production line. Also, the end consumers of the primary products in airless packaging do not find much difference in the packaging, and thus, the introduction of bag-in-bottle packaging do not create much impact on the packaging manufacturers to discard the conventional airless packaging production line. This is expected to restrain the growth of the global bag-in-bottle market.
Global Bag-in-Bottle Market: Segmentation
The global bag-in-bottle market can be segmented on the basis of volumetric capacity as: Up to 100ml, 100 to 150ml, 150 to 400ml, 400 to 750ml, Above 750ml; As with increasing size of the bag-in-bottle packaging, the material required to manufacture the packaging would also increase and thus the price of bag-in-bottle packaging is dependent on the capacity of the packaging. Therefore, the pricing analysis of the bag-in-bottle market is to be done on the basis of capacity.
The global bag-in-bottle market can be segmented on the basis of application as: Liquid products, Semi-solid products; The global bag-in-bottle market can be segmented on the basis of end use as: Cosmetics & Personal care, Oral care, Skin care, Depilatories, Fragrance, Others, Homecare, Healthcare; The global bag-in-bottle market can be segmented on the basis of geography as: North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa (MEA), Asia Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ), Japan;
Global Bag-in-Bottle Market: Regional Overview
North America market is expected to hold the leading position in the bag-in-bottle market. The tendency of Asia Pacific market to adopt the technological changes is weaker as compared to North America market. Western Europe is expected to grow at a high pace as compared to North America due to the vast availability of advanced production technology for the manufacturing of packaging and significant presence of large packaging companies in the region. Growing production of cosmetic products in the Asia Pacific and Latin America regions are expected to drive the regional bag-in-bottle market.
Global Bag-in-Bottle Market: Key Players
Due to the requirement of high initial investment for establishing a production line for bag-in-bottle and low impact observed on the consumers by the change in the type of airless packaging has led to a very limited number of market players in the global bag-in-bottle market. Examples of some of the market players in the bag-in-bottle market include Gaplast GmbH, Eastar Cosmetic Packaging, Yuyao Longway Commodity Co., Ltd., RPC Group, AptarGroup, Inc., and AFA Dispensing Group BV.
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