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Heidelberg Label Days focuses on IML

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Steve Katz, Editor10.17.13

Around 80 label industry professionals from around the world met at Heidelberg’s Print Media Center at its Wiesloch-Walldorf, Germany site on September 23-24. At the demonstration center, Heidelberg showed how its packaging equipment can be used flexibly and productively for industrial label production.   

Global demand for labels is currently growing at around 4.5% annually. Heidelberg emphasizes that the share of labels printed on sheetfed offset presses is showing string growth in particular. With a growth rate of 12% from 2006 to 2010, the print volume for this technology is expected to increase by 65% between 2010 and 2016. "This market segment still offers a great deal of potential for many print shops," said Heidelberg Management Board member Marcel Kiessling at the opening of the Label Days event. "The shift from flexographic to sheetfed offset printing shows that this technology meets the manufacturers' requirements for quality, productivity, flexibility, and sustainability in every respect. Our packaging printing solutions are ideal for label production."

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