State of the Industry: Folding Cartons — Doing Well and Getting Better

Report from the field

As important as capacity statistics are, there is no better gauge of the market than what the soldiers in the trenches are saying. Folding carton package printers face many of the same challenges printers using other processes face: increased foreign competition, consolidation, increased materials costs, and increased energy costs, to name a few. What is important to remember is that these are challenges package printers face industry-wide. According to -Elphick, material costs are an issue, “but we’re all in the same boat so we won’t be able to escape them.”