1999 Top Flexible Package Printers

New Days, New Ways

Flexible packaging printers must continue to seek newer technologies and constructions, and more innovative ways to remain profitable and to lure new customers.

By David Luttenberger

Reflective of their industry moniker, printers in this segment must be "flexible" in the face of continued consolidation, pressing regulatory issues, and more demanding end-user interaction. These issues and others are forcing printers here to seek out new technologies, innovative manufacturing and management techniques, strategic partnerships and alliances and even new product offerings in order to maintain stability as individual companies, business units, and as a group.