
America’s appetite for canned goods is shrinking, putting the industry under pressure. Between 2020 and 2024 US domestic shipments of food cans fell 16.7 per cent, from 28.45 billion cans to 23.7 billion, as per CMI.

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Behind the decline is a rearrangement of what Americans buy in tins — a retreat from staple human-food categories and a quiet surge for coffee and pet food — and a story about changing tastes, packaging innovation and the mechanics of making the very objects whose fortunes are being reshaped.
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