Business Management - Industry Trends

Patrick Henry, a longtime printing industry journalist, has joined NAPCO Media's Printing & Packaging Group as a senior editor. He will contribute to all of the group's publications, which include packagePRINTING, Printing Impressions and In-plant Graphics.

As the calendar turns to the new year, Mintel, a global market research firm announces the key trends that it expects will have an impact on packaging markets around the world. David Luttenberger, Mintel's global packaging director, stopped by the packagePRINTING studio to discuss 2017 trends and share some examples.

EFI hosted its annual EFI Connect Conference from Jan. 17-20 at the Wynn Las Vegas. Packaging played a major role in the conference as EFI grows its presence in corrugated, narrow-web inkjet and automation software.

The second annual Digital Packaging Summit once again brought together leading converters and suppliers in an intimate environment to discuss digital technology in packaging. At the end of the Summit, it was determined that now is the time to explore the technology's benefits.

SuperCorrExpo 2016 offered many highlights for the corrugated industry. In addition to a new venue in Orlando, Fla., attendees learned about the latest in digital printing technology and much more.

BethAnn Telford, special events coordinator at the U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO), isn’t your ordinary printing industry marathon runner — she is fighting brain cancer and preparing to run seven marathons on seven continents in seven consecutive days. It’s called the World Marathon Challenge and only 26 people have completed the challenge to date — five of them were women.

Xerox has announced it has completed the separation of Conduent Inc., creating two market-leading, publicly-traded companies.

For those in the printing and packaging industries, it's hard not to look back at 2016 with positivity. We had an amazing drupa, groundbreaking innovation in printing technologies, and packaging has become the industry's hottest growth area. For a look back at the year that was, we made a list of five of our top stories as determined by you, the reader.

A routine visit to the health and beauty aisle of a store resulted in a humorous viral video for a 22-year-old man from Virginia, when he noticed the similar packaging used in products aimed toward men. The video points out how men's products tend to be packaged in similar dark colors, and has received more than 50,000 retweets.

DataLase had a very busy 2016, in which it launched its in-line digital printing technology, attended major international exhibitions and received industry recognized awards.