Industry Overview
There are over 250 firms in the Printing and Packaging Sector in Trinidad and Tobago. This industry is integral to many other industries, such as cosmetics, electronics, automotive, agriculture and sub-sectors, construction, food and beverage, tourism, as well as education.
Opportunities Within the Sector
Trinidad and Tobago’s printing and packaging industry serves customers around the Caribbean. Exporters have also broken into extra-regional markets such as Florida (USA), Costa Rica, and Mexico.
Businesses in this sector include:
- Commercial printers of bill books, letterhead, call cards and other marketing and stationery items. It also includes roto-printing for books and/or newspapers.
- Flexo and gravure printers of external packaging and labels
- Producers of paper-based items including corrugated boxes, paperboard folding cartons and paper boxes, and bags (single and multi-wall sacks), custom die-cut products such as shelf-talkers, bookmarks and cards, cutouts etc
- Plastic packaging manufacturers of bags/sacks, wrappers involving film or co-extrusion, lamination, coating/lacquering/varnishing, embossing, slitting/welding, printing, sheet extrusion and thermo-forming processes
- Rigid packaging manufacturers producing bottles and containers which involve injection, blow, rotational, and compression processes.