Data Points: Benefits of Technology: UV Curing and the Growth of RFID

Although print providers and packaging converters still find it difficult to invest due to ongoing price pressures and overcapacity issues, productivity and efficiency benefits from energy-curing ink systems are tangible. Those who have adopted the technology do not foresee going forward without it. The PRIMIR study projects a 2.5 percent or greater combined growth rate in North America for energy curing technologies through 2017, possibly higher if education about energy-curing technologies becomes a priority for the industry. pP