Label Converting in North America - A Market Survey and Analysis

Provides an introduction to the structure of North America, its economy, GDP performance, and the position of the North American label sector in the global label market, assesses label industry growth and a slowing of operating profit on sales, looks at the types of other converted products produced, highlights the major use of flexo and UV flexo and also the rapid growth of digital printing, sees the growth in computer-to-plate systems, itemizes key end-user sectors for labels and how new business is obtained, looks at opportunities for the future, industry needs and the main barriers to future growth – particularly downward pressure on prices and rising costs.

About the label converting surveys:
Introduced two years ago to help label converters and suppliers understand the differences between the established and growth label markets, the technology and materials trends by region, label industry growth and performance patterns, understand the markets and applications for labels and look at the opportunities and barriers for future growth.

Chapters in each survey include: market and economic trends, types of products manufactured, technologies and materials used, product and customer base, future growth, and industry requirements to stimulate growth.

Format: Booklet

Michael Fairley has been writing and speaking about label materials, label technology and label applications for more than twenty-five years, both as founder and editor of Labels & Labeling and as an international consultant writing label industry market and technology research reports for the likes of Frost & Sullivan, Economist Intelligence Unit, Pira and Labels & Labeling Consultancy. He has been a speaker at more than 350 conferences and seminars.

He is also the author of the Encyclopedia of Labels and Label Technology and a key contributor to the Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology and the Encyclopedia of Occupational Health & Safety.

He now works as a consultant to Tarsus Group plc – which organizes and runs the worldwide Labelexpo shows and publishes Labels & Labeling – as well as regularly speaking at international conferences around the world.