Representatives of flexible packaging are:
Until the last few years, the flexible packaging converting industry pretty much operated on a country-by-country basis. Finished structures were sold in the countries where they were converted. In some instances, where geography made it fairly easy to get to multiple national markets in less than a four-day drive (Europe comes to mind), markets expanded beyond national borders.
But some time in the 1990s converted flexible packaging structures began to take to the sea and air to reach distant markets. The flexible packaging market today - like much of the packaging materials market - is a global one. A small organic snack food marketer in Hawaii locates a converter in the UK who can produce and deliver a unique biodegradable and home compostable film that fits the product needs and philosophy of the organic snack foods manufacturer.
And, as long as the customer devotes more than a "price check" interest in the distant supplier...as long as the composition and manufacturing quality of the delivered film meets the composition and performance specs of the customer, verified continuously by the customer’s quality control/quality assurance procedures, things should work well.
