Business Management - Industry Trends

Sal Sheikh, VP Marketing, Large Format Solutions, Canon Solutions America says that PRINTING United should give Canon Solutions America an appropriate venue for positioning itself as a leader in digital printing, particularly on the inkjet side.

While each packaging format has sustainability attributes, paperboard-based folding cartons earn strong marks in recyclability and material renewability.

With the rapid rise of ecommerce, social media and instant access to information, the ways in which consumers are purchasing products are changing. Understanding these consumer data and trends can lead to successful packaging.

As digital printing continues to have significant impacts across the packaging industry, the Digital Packaging Summit is expanding its content scope. In addition to labels and folding cartons, the event will now include the latest on digital corrugated printing and will expand into flexible packaging and direct to shape/object printing.

It may be a mature packaging segment, but the folding carton market is still “ripe with opportunity” for those who know how to make the most of it.

Digital printing for corrugated packaging has proven to be a versatile and beneficial technology. But converters face important decisions when adding the technology to their businesses.

SGIA Expo attendees are invited to an opening night party at Tao Las Vegas at the conclusion of the first day of the show (Thursday, Oct. 18). The party will celebrate this year's event and serve as a kickoff for PRINTING United, a new event from SGIA and NAPCO Media, which will premiere in 2019.

FINAT, the international label association, has reported that in 2017, European digital label press installations overtook conventional press sales for the first time.

Labelexpo Americas is underway in Chicago! To get in the spirit of the show, check out these insights from industry experts into the latest opportunities emerging in the label segment of the package printing industry.

At this year's Labelexpo Americas 2018 in Chicago, Domino will host the "Digital Printing Spectrum" live event. The event will feature a complete schedule of events, including educational and informative presentations from a wide-range of industry professionals.