Drinking in the sun North Asian beverage markets

摘要

The highest per capita users of beer and some of the nonalcoholic beverages in Asia has made Japan and South Korea a key market for container glass producers for a number of years. Huge volume of beers, Happo-shu ( in Japan), Soju ( South Korea) and non-alcoholic beverages consumption in both the countries translates to huge demand of packaging products. However, some of the alternate forms of packaging such as metal cans and PET bottles have been taken away from container glass bottles in last 15 years in a major way in both the countries.