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March 2, 2023 Elevating Brand Identity with Custom Printed Packaging Tape In today’s market, building a strong and memorable brand is essential for the success of any business. Custom wholesale water-activated packaging tape offers a unique opportunity to communicate and reinforce the brand’s identity at every touchpoint, making it a valuable tool in enhancing brand identity for businesses. In this blog, we will explore how custom printed packaging tape can improve brand identity and its benefits for e-commerce companies and brick-and-mortar retailers. The Power of Branding Branding has a significant impact on customer perception and purchasing decisions. A strong brand...

    June 2, 2022.   We address the supply chain challenges for label buyers in North America and the remedies facing the printing and label industry today.    As part of our Insights, we recently have been investigating paper imports from Asia using air freight to cut down on turn around times. To learn more about how we can boost label supply to printers dealing with supply chain challenges. Roy Harris, who is responsible for supporting the paper, label and corrugated markets world wide, as well as aftermarket, has been in the Forest Products industry for more than 35...

Latest News on Label Stock March 24, 2022. Persistent self-adhesive materials shortages could severely disrupt the supply of functional and regulatory labels and packaging, warns Finat, the Association for the self-adhesive label industry. According to Finat, in 2021, European self-adhesive label stock demand increased by another 7% to almost 8.5 billion sqm, after an increase of 4.3%  in 2020. Underlying these numbers were opposite fundamentals. Whereas in 2020, excessive demand for self-adhesive labels was driven by the need for labels in essential sectors, demand peaked again in the second and third quarters of 2021 due to the unexpected strong economic...

 We examine supply-chain issues creating havoc across the printing industry Right now across the United States and Canada, supplies of certain paper grades are so tight that many commercial printers simply can’t get the paper they need to complete jobs on time.   On Wednesday, October 20, the DIA (Digital Imaging Association(Canada) ) brought together three experts from different sectors of the printing industry supply chain to discuss the causes of the current chaos that’s forcing unprecedented shortages of some substrates, and escalating prices of others.   The timely online webinar also recommended steps that commercial printers could take to...

Whats new in Label Stock Material deliveries across the United States.

High demand for Pressure Sensitive label stock products continues at record levels causing very high capacity utilization across the industry.

The heavy demand has strained supply chains still trying to recover from the outages caused by the severe weather that impacted the southern US in February. While monomer supply (key building blocks for films, adhesives and process chemicals) remains tight, availability of key ancillary chemicals continues to disrupt production.