Europe’s container manufacturing industry has been reduced to a mere handful of companies, all of which are battling against an increasingly harsh economic climate.
After struggling on the margins for many years, the European container manufacturing industry is a mere shadow of its former self. This region has long since relinquished any claim to volume production, while its involvement in more specialised construction is coming under increasing threat as yet further dry freight special and palletwide container manufacturing migrates eastwards....
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