Straight & Narrow

So what other companies are playing in the narrow-web space for folding cartons? For flexo, it's the same firms that already have a presence in the flexo space with label presses, and they are leveraging relationships with existing label converters who are looking to move into folding cartons. IT Strategies estimates these customers are buying about 10 percent of their new presses specifically for folding cartons. With a global annual market size of approximately 500 presses across all press vendors, that means that about 50 or so narrow web flexographic presses are sold for at least partial folding carton applications.