Will prices go up? Yes, they will! Label and packaging printers under pressure
Not only was it a mixed year in 2020, it will continue to be exciting. The label and packaging industry came out of 2020 with a black eye. Generally speaking, it was sometimes a good year for some,
- 18. March 2021
St. Gallen, March 2021 – The number of participants and the positive feedback speak for the new event format. With more than 1500 registrations the Gallus High Performance Day 2021 on the 3rd and 4th of March 2021 was a huge success. Using this new digital event format, Gallus demonstrated the
- 16. March 2021
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
- 10. March 2021
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
- 10. March 2021
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
- 8. March 2021
St. Gallen, January 2021 – For the very first time Gallus will host a virtual event – the Gallus High Performance Day. Using this new digital event format, Gallus will show its portfolio of digital and conventional label printing systems. The participants can choose between Wednesday, March 3rd at 4:30 pm
- 1. February 2021
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
- 23. September 2020
Sustainability is a topic in itself. In reality, it is a stimulating topic on which opinions differ in many respects. Particularly when it comes to the concretization. Just a few years ago, the industry, and the packaging industry in particular, put the topic into the green corner as an isolated
- 7. September 2020
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
- 28. August 2020
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
- 19. August 2020