AWA Report Examines Global Sleeve Label Market

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands—AWA has updated and expanded its AWAreness Report on the global shrink sleeve label market. The Global Sleeve Label Market and Technology Review 2007 provides an assessment of the global sleeve label market, covering both global and regional markets, growth prospects, material trends, and technologies, with emphasis on the changing structure and trends within this business area.

Sleeve label formats have been the focus of growth in the label sector throughout the early part of this decade, with double-digit growth rates and an increasing list of end-use applications. Sleeve labels have provided label designers, brand managers, packaging technologists, raw materials producers, and printers with a number of opportunities. This packaging decoration format provides high-quality, 360-degree, head-to-toe graphics on a wide spectrum of complex container geometries.

Learn about those growth prospects and find out whether the opportunities and challenges can be beneficial for your company. Sleeve label—shrink, stretch, and ROSO styles—have required significant developments in, for instance, label materials, adhesives, ink systems, origination, and printing technologies. These developments have impacted every step of the value chain, and have contributed to fresh concepts and new approaches to fully leverage the unique characteristics of these label formats.

Markets covered in the report:
• Shrink sleeve
• Stretch sleeve
• MD shrink/roll on shrink on (ROSO)

This is an information source for:
• Raw material producers
• Printers/converters
• End users/brand owners
• Packaging technologists
• All those involved in the production, use, and purchasing of product decoration and labeling technologies.

For more information, visit www.awa-bv.com.