Key facts:
- The flexographic printing market is worth $230 billion at constant prices in 2024
- The market is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.0% to 2029
The report focuses on the flexographic printing process and its future evolution across key global product markets from 2019 to 2029. It considers market developments, key drivers and trends; there is a particular interest in the role of digital print and the influence that its increase may have on the flexographic market.
Flexography is a direct contact roll-fed printing process that is used to print high volumes of labels, packaging, and other consumer products, economically at high speeds on a wide variety of substrates. It is used in many specialist applications as diverse as wallpaper, wrapping paper, stationery, and tickets. This report contains a comprehensive data set covering all major end-use applications for national and regional markets, as well as current and future demand for flexographic equipment and consumables.
Key Questions:
- How has development of new technologies and trends impacted the global flexographic printing market?
- What are the key trends affecting demand for flexographic printing?
- What are the main challenges facing this market?
- How is the increase in digital print impacting flexo?
This report is essential to:
- Raw materials suppliers including inks and consumables
- Manufacturers of flexographic press, and pre-press equipment
- Flexographic press operators, packaging converters and printers
Table of Contents
Executive summary
Introduction and methodology
- Report scope
- Report objective
- Research process
- Methodology
- List of definitions
- Anilox roller
- Bags and sacks
- Biaxially-orientated polypropylene (BOPP)
- Coldset web offset
- Computer-to-plate (CtP)
- CPG
- Converting
- Corrugated packaging
- Digital printing
- EB-curing (electron beam)
- Envelopes
- Flexible packaging
- Flexography
- Flexo 'other end-use applications'
- Foiling
- Folding cartons
- Gravure (rotogravure)
- HBA
- ITR (In The Round) Sleeves
- Labels
- Lamination
- Offset
- Oriented polystyrene (OPS)
- Photopolymer plate
- Roll-to-roll
- Roll-to-sheet
- Sanitary/kitchenware
- SKU
- Spot varnishing
- Solvent-based flexo ink
- UV curing
- Varnishing
- Water-based flexo ink
- Web widths
Key drivers and trends
- Introduction
- World economic outlook
- Demographic trends
- Packaging trends
- Changing run length demands in different applications
- Increasing popularity of flexible packaging
- Increasing popularity of shelf-ready packaging
- Environmental trends
- Generational demands
- Corporate trends
- Environmental sustainability
- Sustainable materials
- Sustainable manufacturing processes
- Reuse
- Compliance
- Supported by global regulatory efforts
- Changing consumer habits
- New packaging types
- Data and customer experience
- Shorter runs
- Supply chains and manufacturing on demand
- Online transactions
Cutting edge technology developments
- Introduction
- Automation of flexo press processes
- Improvements to flexo computer-to-plate technology (CtP)
- Improvements to anilox rollers
- Availability of UV LEDs for UV curing sets, replacing UV lamps
- Flexo finishing equipment improvements
- Growth of screening, water wash plates and sleeves
- Inks and consumables
Flexo print - managing the digital challenge
Flexo equipment and consumables markets
- Introduction
- Flexographic printing equipment markets
- Narrow web
- Medium web
- Wide web
- Sheetfed (incl. folders/ gluers)
- Specials/other flexo units
- Flexographic printing consumables
- Printing inks
- Printing plates
- ITR Printing sleeves
Flexo application markets
- Overview
- Corrugated packaging
- Flexible packaging
- Bags & sacks
- Labels
- Cartons
- Newspapers
- Envelopes
- Sanitary/kitchenware
- Other products
Flexo printing geographic markets
- Introduction
- 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