(as of July 24, 2007)

• Flexible packaging is a $23.5 billion industry in the United States.
  
  
• Flexible packaging is the second largest packaging type, garnering 18 percent of the U.S. $130 billion packaging market.
  
  
• The flexible packaging industry directly employs approximately 80,000 people.
  
  
• Flexible packaging converters range from small manufacturing companies operating a single facility to large integrated corporations with close to 30 individual plant locations.
  
  
• The average flexible packaging company employs about 185 people and serves a wide array of markets.
  
  
• Exports account for approximately 6 percent of industry shipments.
  
  
• The largest market for flexible packaging is food (retail and institutional), accounting for over 57 percent of shipments.
  
  
• Other markets for flexible packaging include retail non-food at 10 percent; industrial applications at 10 percent; consumer products at 10 percent; institutional non-food at 5 percent; and medical and pharmaceutical at 8 percent.