{"id":141844,"date":"2025-07-28T14:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/\/2025\/07\/il-packaging-made-in-italy-alla-conquista-della-tanzania\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T14:17:23","slug":"il-packaging-made-in-italy-alla-conquista-della-tanzania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/sala_stampa\/archivionotizie\/diplomazia-economica\/2025\/07\/il-packaging-made-in-italy-alla-conquista-della-tanzania\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in Italy packaging set to conquer the Tanzanian market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The packaging sector in Tanzania is experiencing solid growth. According to a market study on the Tanzanian packaging industry conducted by the Italian Trade Agency\u2019s Office in Nairobi, with a market value of USD 370 million in 2024 and an annual growth rate of 3.9%, the country\u2019s drive towards <strong>industrialisation<\/strong> is a key factor supporting its development.<\/p>\n<p>The main driver behind this growth is the emphasis on agricultural exports, which account for 58% of market demand for packaging. The need to comply with international standards for export-bound products is fuelling a strong local push towards <strong>mechanisation and technological innovation<\/strong>. This trend \u2013 the report notes \u2013 is further reinforced by the growth of the manufacturing sector, which expanded by 9.32% between 2022 and 2024. The food &amp; beverage industry is the main end-user, representing 70% of the packaging market.<\/p>\n<p>Alongside the dominant food sector, <strong>the pharmaceutical industry<\/strong> is showing increasing interest in advanced packaging solutions. With an 18% share of the labelling market \u2013 a segment valued at USD 11 million \u2013 this sector expresses specific demand for packaging that ensures regulatory compliance and product safety. In 2024, Italy ranked as <strong>the third-largest supplier of packaging machinery<\/strong> to Tanzania, with a market share of 15%, equivalent to a value of EUR 9.46 million.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable figure in the Italian Trade Agency\u2019s Office study is the exceptional growth in Italian exports to Tanzania, which surged <strong>by 183.16% compared to 2023.<\/strong> This performance significantly outpaces that of Italy\u2019s direct competitors, Germany (+53.87%) and China (+43.63%). Italian companies hold leading positions in strategic segments, ranking among the top three suppliers of complete systems (including complex machinery), spare parts, and packaging machines.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The packaging sector in Tanzania is experiencing solid growth. According to a market study on the Tanzanian packaging industry conducted by the Italian Trade Agency\u2019s Office in Nairobi, with a market value of USD 370 million in 2024 and an annual growth rate of 3.9%, the country\u2019s drive towards industrialisation is a key factor supporting [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":141448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[417],"tags":[31,3],"class_list":["post-141844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomazia-economica","tag-africa","tag-diplomazia-economica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141848,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141844\/revisions\/141848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}