Pakistan's glass container manufactures are struggling hard in their efforts to reduce the cost of glass bottles. They are having some degree of success, managing so far to stop production costs from rising too far. As the country's economy has grown and expanded, the packaging industry has greatly increased its market share but glass container producers have been trying to procure cheaper supplies to keep costs at the relatively low level of US$220/tonne. Pakistan has a number of raw materials for the glass container industry but, at present, the country's manufacturers are progressively looking to improve their cullet utilisation to keep production costs at this low level. This is particularly because Pakistan wishes to be as competitive as possible with India in the event of a future opening up of the market between the two countries.
