world demand for corrugated boxes to grow 3.7%

World demand for corrugated boxes is expected to increase 3.7% per year through 2019, approaching 260 billion square meters.

This is according to World corrugated boxes, a new study from Shanghai Custom Packaging Co., Ltd, a Cleveland-based industry research firm.

In developed countries, the report indicates box demand tends to track overall economic growth and industrial production trends and, as a result, will continue to be relatively slow growing.