Dave McDowell

McDowell Label, a global supplier of heat shrink sleeves, decorative labels, and flexible packaging headquartered in Plano, is celebrating its 30th year in business. Founded as a broker-style company in 1981 by current chairman, Dave McDowell, the company acquired its first printing press in 1994 and never looked back.

With a career dedicated to the tag and label industry, Dave McDowell, chairman of McDowell Label and Screen Printing, is honored as packagePRINTING's 2009 TLMI Converter of the Year.

The tag and label industry takes center stage in this issue of packagePRINTING, with the annual State of the Industry Report - Tags and Labels and the Top Tag and Label Converters listing. The State of the Industry Report focuses on economic, market, and technology trends that impact the industry. Although the amount of technological change is not always apparent from year to year, it is amazing how much the industry has evolved in the last few years. At the start of this decade, many technologies seemed to be in their early stages of development and use, and there were questions as to when