On Demand: Food & Beverage Packaging Session: How Cost Volatility Is Reshaping Your Material Strategy

Packaging costs are being reset.

Tariffs, energy market swings, recycled content requirements, and shifting trade flows have hit steel, aluminum, plastic resins, and corrugated board at the same time. The result is a cost environment that is harder to read, harder to budget for, and harder to defend to stakeholders.

The volatility isn’t confined to one category. It’s across the board, and it isn’t going away.

Watch Expana’s session from June 18 at 11 AM ET / 4 PM BST, where packaging market specialists Andrew Woods and Artem Segen break down what is driving costs across each material category and where the market stands as you head into H2 2026.

What you will learn:

• How tariffs and production costs are driving material prices right now, and what that means for your budgets
• The key drivers behind steel, aluminum, and plastic resin prices
• What the corrugated and pulp markets look like heading into the second half of the year