Business Management - Industry Trends

Fujifilm announced results from qualitative interviews with more than 1,100 customers indicating optimism for the printing industry.

The Center for Print Production at Ithaca College has pivoted production to develop FDA-approved face shields and acrylic sneeze guards.

Peter Drucker’s timeless advice can still help steer any operation through challenging market conditions. His insights and recommendations are still relevant and can be applied in making business decisions in today’s unprecedented COVID-19 business environment.

Plum Grove has launched a line of coronavirus signs for workplaces to promote safety protocols and comply with new COVID-19 legislation. The files are free to download for print and distribution.

Revenue losses have been severe at university in-plants during the COVID-19 crisis. In our latest podcast, IPI Editor Bob Neubauer talks with the directors of three major university in-plants in different parts of the country about how they are coping with the loss of work and how they are adapting to this new reality.

COVID-19 has hit every in-plant. Some are printing in overdrive. Others are dangerously slow. Many are stepping forward in these dark times to prove their value.

Thanks to its expertise in print and mail delivery, Oregon Publishing & Distribution was tapped to coordinate distribution of personal protective equipment to hospitals and care facilities around the state.

With the use of Oxytech Systems' UV technology, companies like SG360° have been able to keep operations running by quickly and efficiently sanitizing facilities against COVID-19.

Digital printing offers many important and transformational benefits to label and packaging printers and customers. Given its enormous potential, it is an ongoing focus area for NAPCO Research.

As the industry converges and consolidates, so have many trade associations. This might be best exemplified by the recent merger of SGIA and PIA, which is reflective of the ongoing consolidation in the highly fragmented and diverse universe of companies that make up the industry.