What’s the Next Move

Increasing awareness of the good environmental characteristics of paper-based products has led to a resurgence of interest in cartonboard as a packaging medium. In the product-decoration field, sleeving in all its forms, is growing fast.

Print technologies have also moved on, with flexo now the dominant narrow- and medium-web print technology, and digital label printing continuing to grow, and developing a broader base of market niches. Above all, the advent of RFID is creating interest throughout the packaging supply chain—particularly in the self-adhesive label world.