It is reported that Asia Pacific demand for PET will intensify further with 47% of the world’s consumer products in PET bottles set to be sold in Asia by 2019.

PET growth in Asia will be driven by increasing demand in emerging economies like Myanmar as well as brand owners’ interest in PET and its environmental benefits.

Consumer brands have rushed into Myanmar since it threw open its market gates, eager to promote their products to this exciting new demographic. There has also been rise in trade with Thailand as many more products are imported into Myanmar. Thailand’s beverage company Drinkologist has a 3 year growth strategy to expand and distribute its IF Fruitamin products in the Asean Region including Laos, Myanmar and Brunei.

Loi Hein, a Yangon-based company that dominates the local purified water market with its popular Alpine brand and which is also behind Blue Mountain soft drinks, expects its annual revenue to grow more than five times over the next decade.

How does this translate to opportunities for the PET converters and packaging suppliers?  What is the beverage trend and outlook for Myanmar? 

Foreign preform suppliers have set up facilities in Myanmar to take advantage on the potential growth market.

Indorama Ventures Packaging (Myanmar) Limited, a project for the production of preforms and closures was set up recently to serve the local beverage industry with competitive and high quality preforms.

Hon Chuan known as the “bottle cap king of Asia,” finally invested in a preform factory in Myanmar in 2013 at the Mingaladon Industrial Park, after having served Myanmar’s largest drinks maker, Pinya since way back in 2007.

Meanwhile on upstream capacities, huge expansions in China’s PTA production will intensify deficit in Asia’s PX despite PX expansions for the past two years. PX expansions from Middle East to Asia will compete to supply Europe, while on PTA, there is a risk of global supply glut.

On downstream PET markets key technology developments to 2017 also include further advances in barrier systems, continued light weighting, and growing emphasis on sustainability and recycling.

What are the latest innovations in soft drinks packaging? What is the potential of PET for pharmaceutical packaging?

• Global PET markets & trade dynamics of the PX-PTA-PET chain moving into 2017 
• Overview of Myanmar beverage market
• Perspective from  Loi Hein,  Myanmar’s #1 bottled water producer - Alpine 
• Perspective from Myanmar’s converters – Great Foundation and Hon Chuan Enterprise
• Ajinomoto General Foods on developing sustainable packaging and environmental awareness
• Thailand’s leading beverage company – Drinkologist on growing the IF – Fruitamin brand and their new PET aseptic line
• T-handle: New solution for producing PET containers with handles using a preform. 
• Global Soft Drinks Packaging: Winning in the New Consumerism Era through Innovations          
• RPET collection systems in Myanmar – Challenges & improvements on the systems
• Perspective from Indonesia - PET Preform market, aseptic & hot fill developments
• India - Carving out a niche in PET packaging for the pharmaceutical sector

Comments from last year’s 5th PET Asia Outlook,

Nov 2015 in Bangkok

Quenching thirsty market

Drinkologist maps out 3 year Asean growth strategy

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