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The war in Ukraine is having an impact on the markets in Germany. Manufacturers of plastic packaging are also affected and have to manage their liquidity accordingly. Natural gas shortages and rising electricity costs in particular are also leading to price increases in the production of packaging and films.
Some raw material manufacturers have already drastically Price increases for important raw materials such as polyamide and EVOH, which are irreplaceable for food packaging, for example. The costs can often only be passed on to customers with a long delay, if at all. This leads to liquidity problems for medium-sized companies.
„While raw material suppliers insist on payment within a week, our members“ customers often take several months to settle their invoices. In the current crisis, this financing gap is beyond the means of many medium-sized manufacturers. We are therefore appealing to both raw material suppliers and customers to adjust their payment terms at short notice",
Dr Martin Engelmann, Managing Director of the IK Industrial Association for Plastic Packaging
In the latest IK member survey, almost 80 per cent of packaging manufacturers rate the current earnings situation as poor. Particularly in the Supplying the population with food and medicines plastic packaging plays a major role.
„The consequences of the terrible war in Ukraine are exacerbating the situation for plastic packaging manufacturers, who have been suffering from a shortage of raw materials and dramatically increased energy prices for a year now. Many medium-sized companies in the industry feel that their existence is under threat. If production is no longer profitable due to high energy and raw material costs and machines are switched off, important supply chains are in danger of being torn apart. During the coronavirus pandemic, politicians recognised that packaging is „systemically relevant“. This realisation also applies in the current crisis.“
Dr Martin Engelmann
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