Putting A Cap On It - Bottle Makers Battle The Rise In Costs

As Asian container glass manufacturers face an increasingly competitive regional business environment (China's low cost production being the main reason), they seek out opportunities to reduce production costs without negatively affecting product yield or quality. These container glass producers are making major efforts to adapt and innovate themselves while continuing to meet market demand for high quality container glass requirements. In this article, Asian Glass accesses the container glass production costs in three of the most important producing countries in South Asia (India), South East Asia (Thailand) and the Far East (Japan) and evaluates their action plans to deal with rising production costs.