ITALY’S FOOD CAN MARKET SHOWS RESILIENCE AMID CONTINUED SUPPLY CHAIN AND PANDEMIC DISRUPTION

Global supply chain delivery delays and price tensions continue to disrupt Italy’s otherwise robust food can production sector. With profit margins squeezed, food canners expect prices to rise across the board for these long shelf-life food staples According to Italian can manufacturing industry association ANFIMA’s most recent data, Italy produced 698,523 tonnes of rigid metal packaging (tinplate and steel) and 24,745 tonnes of aluminium packaging in 2020, up 3.6% and 7% from the same period the previous year, respectively. Italy’s can sector utilises ...


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