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Workforce development has been among the top challenges in the package printing industry in recent years. It’s important to understand why this is, and what can be done about it.

Joel Carmany, the 2018 packagePRINTING TLMI Converter of the Year, has led Consolidated Label from humble beginnings to extraordinary heights, while striving to give back to the industry.

The superb quality and the automated workflows of packaging and label production wouldn’t be possible without high-performance prepress applications.

Packaging is in demand across nearly all market segments. Package printers and converters on the pulse of market trends will have a competitive advantage.

With the rapid rise of ecommerce, social media and instant access to information, the ways in which consumers are purchasing products are changing. Understanding these consumer data and trends can lead to successful packaging.

While each packaging format has sustainability attributes, paperboard-based folding cartons earn strong marks in recyclability and material renewability.

By partnering NAPCO Media with SGIA to develop PRINTING United, the focus is on the future. The goal of the event is to listen intently to the market to ensure the success and growth of all market segments within the graphic arts industry.

Labelexpo Americas is underway in Chicago! To get in the spirit of the show, check out these insights from industry experts into the latest opportunities emerging in the label segment of the package printing industry.

If there are any remaining skeptics of the high-quality printing that can be done with digital technology, the work coming out of Multi-Color Corporation's Mile End South, Australia, facility should put those doubts to rest. This digitally printed label proved that it could go head to head with conventional printing, and even earned consideration for the title of Best of Show in the packagePRINTING Excellence Awards.

Eye-catching offset printing, tactile embellishments and the addition of a smokey scent helped Hub Folding Box earn Best of Show in the 32nd annual packagePRINTING Excellence Awards for this folding carton, produced for Crown Royal's Texas Mesquite Canadian whisky.