State of the Industry-Flexible Packaging

Economic pressures

The National Association of Printing Leadership's "NAPL 2002 - 2003 State of the Industry Report," published annually by NAPL's Printing Economics Research Center (PERC), provides a broad analysis of the printing industry, including a wide spectrum of commercial and package printing. Chapter 1 starts off: "There are a lot of ways to describe our industry's business environment. 'Erratic' is the kindest."