Delivering High Coverage and Impactful Graphics, at High Speed, for Boxes and Boards

A thriving e-commerce industry and a growing trend in big box retailing together offer a promising growth trajectory for the corrugated packaging market. Known for its structural rigidity, the corrugated box offers good protection to heavy contents or fragile products and is a lighter weight than many other packaging substrates. These attributes show why corrugated … Continued

Flexographic M&A Drivers: Achieving Growth Through Consolidation

It seems that every week we are waking up to news of yet another merger or acquisition within the packaging industry. Over the course of 2018, we saw a wide variety of transactions ranging from the occasional blockbuster, such as Amcor’s long-rumored acquisition of Bemis, to the far more frequent product line tuck-in, such as … Continued

Digital Transformation: Industry 4.0 Is Here to Stay

In the same way that new technologies are changing relationships and personal communications, information analysis in real-time, done online, over multiple systems and incorporating agile decision-making is landing in the industrial world and, therefore, is here to stay. Called the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) or Industry 4.0, it involves connecting machines, systems and people … Continued

FIRST 5.0 Available From the Amazon Kindle Store

BOHEMIA, NY – Nov. 19, 2014 – Flexographic Technical Association’s (FTA) recently revised perennial best seller, Flexographic Image Reproduction Specifications & Tolerances (FIRST) 5.0, is now available as an eBook from Amazon’s Kindle Store. The Kindle Edition of FIRST 5.0 can be purchased for $49.00 and can be read on all Kindle tablets, Kindle for … Continued