抄録
The Asia Pacific region has register the highest and fastest economic growth rate in the world in the past few year (see Table 1). This has significantly impact the ASEAN packaging industry. The total packaging market for the ASEAN countries was about US$6.5 billion. The characteristics of the packaging industry in most of the ASEAN countries are towards high growth rates, a strong domestic-orientation and national/ regional markets. This paper attempts to provide information of members country of ASEAN. As many of these countries do not have detailed data for the packaging industries, most of the data from this paper are extracted from papers written by participants that has taken part or have contributed to the training carried out by the Packaging Centre in Singapore. The paper will cover first packaging R&D in this region, the specific packaging industry, the general trend and conclusion will be address at the end of this paper.
