In 2020, print for packaging is valued at almost $447 billion, with print output of 11.4 trillion A4 prints or equivalent.
Our exclusive content:
- In-depth market forecasts segmented by technological developments, printing process, materials, printing ink and geographic region
- Comprehensive analysis of key market drivers and trends in the package printing market to 2025
- Technological developments which will see the growth of the market over a five-year period.
The Smithers methodology:
This report is based on extensive primary and secondary research. Primary research consisted of interviews targeted to packaging material suppliers, converters and experts drawn from key markets worldwide.
This was supported by secondary research in the form of extensive literature analysis of published data, official government statistics, domestic and international packaging trade organisation data, company websites, industry reports, trade press articles, presentations, and attendance at trade events.
What will you discover?
- In the period 2020-2025 digital print will be the fastest growing print technology area in print for packaging by both value and output
- The restraining factors in play, including the increasing demand for more sustainable packaging
- The impact industry 4.0 is having on the package printing market.
About the author:
Paul Ewing has over 20 years' experience in the digital printing industry with ICI, Zeneca, Avecia and Fujifilm. He left Fujifilm in 2016 to set up Ewing Innovation, a management consultancy working with inkjet supply chain. He has authored and co-authored several reports for Smithers.
Who should buy the report?
- Materials suppliers
- Packaging converters
- Package printers
- Raw material suppliers
- Equipment and machinery supplier
- Brand owners and retailers
- Industry consultant and analysts.
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Introduction & methodology
- Introduction
- Report scope
- Report objective
- Methodology
- List of definitions
- Abbreviations and glossary of terms
Key drivers and trends
- Introduction
- Demographic and social trends
- Alternative packaging formats and materials
- Smart packaging developments
- Environmental and recycling factors
Cutting-edge technological developments
- Introduction
- Analogue print for packaging
- Flexography
- Lithography
- Gravure
- Screen
- Other analogue package printing processes
- Dry offset
- Letterpress
- Pad printing
- Foiling
- Digital print for packaging
- Electrophotography
- Inkjet
- Narrow-web presses
- Sheetfed inkjet
- Indirect inject (Landa)
- Integrations and bespoke machinery
- Direct-to-pack
- Digital finishing
Printing process markets and forecasts
- Overview
- Offset
- Gravure
- Flexography
- Screen
- Other analogue
- Digital
Material markets and forecasts
- Overview
- Labels
- Board packaging
- Corrugated board packaging
- Cartons
- Flexible packaging
- Rigid plastic packaging
- Metal cans
Package printing ink markets & forecasts
Geographic markets
- Overview
- Western Europe
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Spain
- UK
- Other Western Europe
- North America
- Asia
- China
- India
- Japan
- Other Asia
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Other Latin America
- Eastern Europe
- Poland
- Russia
- Other Eastern Europe
- Middle East
- Africa
- Australasia
Key Facts and Figures
- Global packaging print by type 2015-2025 ($ million)
- Global packaging print by print process by value 2015-2025 ($ million)
- Digital print landscape: labels
- Digital print landscape: corrugated, cartons and flexibles
- Digital print landscape: rigids
- HP Indigo LEP and LEPx printing configurations
- Exchange rates to the US$
- Packaging market requirements and print for packaging technology responses
- Summary timeline of flexo
- developments, 2020-25
- Summary timeline of litho print developments, 2020-25
- Long-term prospects for electrophotography printing, 2020-25
- SWOT analysis for inkjet printing
- High performance inkjet printheads in 2020
- Global package & label printing output by process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Offset: global package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Offset: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Gravure: global package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Gravure: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Flexography: global package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Flexography: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Screen: global package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Screen: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other analogue: global package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other analogue: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Digital: global package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Digital: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Global package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Labels: global printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Labels: printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Corrugated board packaging: global printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Corrugated board packaging: printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Cartons: global printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Cartons: printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Flexible packaging: global printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Flexible packaging: printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Rigid plastic packaging: global printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Rigid plastic packaging: printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Metal cans: global printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Metal cans: printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Package & label printing output by region, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Western Europe: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Western Europe: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Western Europe: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- France: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- France: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Germany: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Germany: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Italy: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Italy: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Spain: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Spain: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- UK: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- UK: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Western Europe: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Western Europe: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- North America: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- North America: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- North America: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Canada: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Canada: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- US: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- US: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Asia: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Asia: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Asia: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- China: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- China: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- India: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- India: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Japan: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Japan: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Asia: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Asia: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Latin America: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Latin America: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Latin America: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Brazil: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Brazil: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Latin America: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Latin America: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Latin America: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Latin America: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Eastern Europe: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Eastern Europe: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Eastern Europe: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Poland: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Poland: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Russia: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Russia: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Eastern Europe: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Eastern Europe: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Middle East: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Middle East: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Middle East: package & label printing output by geographic market, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Turkey: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Turkey: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Middle East: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Other Middle East: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Africa: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Africa: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Australasia: package & label printing output by material, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)
- Australasia: package & label printing output by print process, 2015-25 ($ million; billion A4 prints)