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attractive to both foreign glass Mexico (including Caribbean)
sumer trends toward convenient bottle makers and other com- and Argentina.
and comfortable handling solutions panies owing to such factors as
anticipating a drive in demand for rich natural resources, low-cost MILK AND OTHER DAIRY
flexible solutions, with incremental labour and increasing consumer PRODUCTS TO HOLD
enhancements in plastic packaging expenditure. Apart from cos- SIGNIFICANT SHARE
solutions posing a threat to the metics and carbonated drinks, Latin America’s dairy market
glass packaging market. the region has also registered is among the fastest-growing in
an upsurge in alcoholic bever- the world. While wider prosper-
REPORT SCOPE ages. As an alcoholic beverage, ity has helped shift demand from
The Latin America glass bot- beer is in especially high demand glass to rigid plastic and metal,
tle and container market is cur- in such regions as Columbia, that of value-added packaging
rently growing and has become

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