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Rising material and operating costs are making packaging margins, factory equipment renewal and the terms for repurposing idle assets harder at the same time.
At a major packaging company, raw-material and operating costs cut into profits. In the wait for power, wage rises and equipment repurposing, case after case shows that simply owning existing assets is no longer an advantage.
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Packaging profits are being cut by material and operating costs.
At Graphic Packaging, material and operating costs squeezed profits. AI investment constraints have spread from semiconductors to electricity, and retired jet engines are now being used for power generation. In factory investment decisions, companies are increasingly separating the value of equipment they own from the cost required to renew or repurpose it.…
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