Key facts:
- In 2024, the package printing market is worth $512 billion and it will increase to $695 billion by 2029
- Between 2024 and 2029, the market will witness a growth rate of 6.3% CAGR in value terms
This report provides authoritative market sizing data and forecasting of the market for printed packaging and labels over the period 2019-29. It identifies major trends and drivers affecting the package printing sector, such as increasing urbanisation rates, growth in e-commerce and advances in print technologies.
Package printing processes are increasingly automated for greater efficiency with advanced workflows, robotics and artificial intelligence deployed on modern presses. Digital print is by far the fastest growing print technology for labels and packaging.
As markets expand, the positive outlook for printed packaging will attract investment in new package print equipment and in R&D and services from packaging designers, equipment suppliers, software, ink and materials companies and others.
Key Questions:
- Which areas of the industry will experience the greatest growth over the next five years?
- How is the industry preparing to adapt to the PPWR?
- What are the main challenges the industry needs to overcome?
- How is the global drive for sustainability impacting supply chains?
This report is essential to:
- Printer manufacturers
- Ink and packaging substrate suppliers
- Packaging converters and print service providers
Table of Contents
Executive summary
- Overview
- Printed packaging and labels materials
- Print process outlook
- End use markets
- Package and label printing inks
- Geographic markets
- Growth summary
Introduction and methodology
- Introduction
- Report scope
- Packaging categories
- Labels
- Corrugated
- Folding cartons
- Flexible packaging
- Rigid plastics
- Metal packaging
- Print processes
- End-use markets
- Geographic markets
- Report objectives
- Methodology
- Data
- List of definitions and abbreviations
Key drivers and trends
- Introduction
- Demographic and social trends
- Retail changes driving supply chain
- Sustainability
- Plastic packaging
- Addressing packaging sustainability
- Removing materials altogether from packaging
- Reducing the amount of material used in packaging
- Designing packaging to be reused:
- Improving packaging recycling rates.
- Replacing fossil fuel derived virgin plastic materials with recycled and/or bio-derived materials
- Economic uncertainty: consequences of the war in Ukraine and COVID-19
- Smart packaging developments
- Regulation and industry guidelines
- Advances in print technology
Cutting-edge technological developments
- Introduction
- Print as part of the connected packaging production system
- Analogue print for packaging
- Flexography
- Lithography
- Printing plates & screening
- Ink technologies
- Gravure
- Screen
- Other analogue package printing processes
- Dry offset
- Letterpress
- Pad printing
- Foiling
- Digital print for packaging
- Electrophotography
- Inkjet
- Inkjet printheads
- Inkjet inks
- Inkjet presses for corrugated
- Narrow-web presses
- Webfed single-pass inkjet presses
- Sheetfed inkjet
- Indirect inkjet (Landa)
- Integrations and bespoke machinery
- Direct-to-pack
- Summary
- Digital finishing
Printing process markets and forecasts
- Overview
- Offset litho
- Gravure
- Flexography
- Screen
- Other analogue
- Digital
Material markets and forecasts
- Overview
- Labels
- Corrugated board packaging
- Cartons
- Flexible packaging
- Rigid plastic packaging
- Metal cans
End-use markets & forecasts
- Introduction
- Food
- Drink
- Healthcare
- Cosmetics
- Other consumer goods
- Others (industrial, transit, etc.)
Package & label printing ink markets and forecasts
- Overview
- Digital ink developments
- Inks and sustainability
Geographic markets
- Overview
- Western Europe
- France
- Germany
- Italy
- Spain
- UK
- Other Western Europe
- North America
- Asia
- China
- India
- Japan
- Other Asian countries
- Latin America
- Brazil
- Mexico
- Other Latin American countries
- Eastern Europe
- Poland
- Russia
- Other Eastern Europe
- Middle East
- Africa
- Australasia