4,082,331,330 kg/year, or 4.1 million tons. That is already a considerable amount. That is the number of printing inks consumed or used worldwide every year. A world without ink would effectively be a world without color. Our lives and our environment, our products would be just black and white without

Paper as a label and packaging material is experiencing something of a resurgence. Sometimes fueled by the ever-growing concern and overfilling of the oceans with plastic and thus about plastic consumption and waste, the packaging material is increasingly conquering terrain in all categories. Paper packaging is also well suited for

A report presents statistics and developments in e-commerce since 2014 and also forecasts the future of e-commerce up to 2023. Accumulated data for the most recent period covered forecasts an increase in global e-commerce sales of 276.9%. There will be no avoiding optimizing packaging design and materials, because the needs

Growth everywhere. Pleasing. But this time differently. Because whoever thinks linearly here now has done the math without the host. The host is the consumer here. And in the future this will be even more complex than ever before. This will confront the packaging sector of the printing industry with tricky

THE CASCADES OF MARGIN PRESSURE While FMCG companies were already facing strong margin pressure before COVID-19, this pressure will continue to increase. This pressure is all too easily passed on to the converters. This strong pressure from the producers (FMCG) has already influenced packaging design in several ways. Be it through

Five trends that will change the game There are five trends that will change the game. And for all of them the bar will be much higher than we can imagine at the moment. The new game will require a far greater degree of agility and innovation to successfully navigate

White paper for Gallus By AWA Alexander Watson Associates Highlights of Developing Markets across the Globe Prior to the global pandemic, according to the IMF, the global economy was projected to grow at 3.6% in the current year – a figure that AWA forecast would be higher than growth in

By AWA Alexander Watson Associates Bottles, cans, and now flexible packaging…   Beverage labels in general are a major component of the end uses for labels, and they employ all the major formats of printing and product decoration – glue applied labels (cold (wet) glue applied and wraparound); pressure-sensitive labels; heat

Consumers will continue to change their wine consumption due to climate change – contrary to the climatic changes in the wine Retailers are already now noticing climate-change induced changes in consumer behaviour. CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECTS CONSUMER CHOICE In hot summers, for example, wine consumption drops, and demand for heavy red