In 2021, Blaige & Company moved into the third decade of proprietary research on the impact of the global consolidation across multiple sectors in plastics processing. As discussed in the Blaige proprietary Twenty Year Plastics and Packaging Mergers and Acquisitions Consolidation Study, on average, 74% of 2001’s top 50 plastics and packaging companies in each sector have undergone change of ownership or been eliminated over the past 20 years. Mr. Blaige will discuss the main valuation drivers of the sector as well as the headwinds for business owners in the “election-year environment” of 2024. Mr. Blaige will reveal valuable strategies designed to help company owners understand how to use mergers and acquisitions as a valuable tool.