News & Tips — 13" x 19" label sheets

    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...

October 14, 2020. Since the lockdown was implemented in North America in March, a ‘clap for carers’ has seen people step into gardens and onto balconies in their droves to applaud Health care staff and other key workers every Thursday night at 7pm. Millions are reported to have taken part. The phenomenon of people cheering in the evenings began in mid-January in the shut-down Chinese city of Wuhan. It took off in Canada and Italy, with people emerging to bang on pots and pans and play accordions. Similar initiatives – including standing ovations and singing – have become commonplace around...

How to make yourself indispensable. How indispensable do you believe yourself to be ...to your employer? ...to your customers? ...to anyone you rely on to regularly exchange value with? If you work for a company—are you indispensable, or are you easily replaceable? How hard would it be for your employer to find someone that can do what you can do, but for less? If you run your own business—are your products and services indispensable, or can they be easily replaced or replicated? How hard would it be for someone in your space to provide customers with something similar or better,...