Explore expert insights, technical guides, and market trends in luxury packaging. Discover optimization strategies for rigid box and case making machinery.
Choose the right book binding glue: EVA hot-melt, PUR, or water-based. A 2026 selection guide for case binding, perfect binding, and layflat production.
In 2026, postpress finishing is consolidating: hot foil stamping and die-cutting now combine in one pass. What it means for luxury and rigid box packaging.
Cloth tape book binding grows from $1.22B in 2026 at a 7.8% CAGR. Key drivers, trends, and the machinery helping binderies automate spine taping.
Pack Expo 2026 in Chicago signals a shift toward flexible automation. What the show means for rigid box and case making machinery buyers.
If you are sourcing a jewelry box machine in 2026, there is a good chance your biggest problem is not headline speed. It is whether the machine can hold precision on very small boxes, keep velvet or PU wraps clean, and maintain insert fit across repeated size changes. For ring...
On 12 August 2026, the European Union's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) became mandatory. For rigid box, gift box, and luxury packaging converters, this is not a distant policy document. It is a set of recyclability rules that now determines what can be sold into Europe and how it...
One of the most commercially meaningful rigid box stories of 2026 is not only about growth. It is about how luxury packaging is being rebuilt around recyclability. A notable signal came when Smurfit Kappa expanded its premium rigid packaging offer with fully recyclable rigid gift boxes that use advanced water-based...
Cardbox's HEIDELBERG investment shows why postpress automation 2026 is about faster changeovers, less waste, and premium packaging growth.
Novus Print's 72-hour digital book line shows how on-demand book production is changing book binding, inventory planning, and hardcover equipment buying in 2026.
On August 7, 2026, Agfa unveiled the SpeedSet Orca 1060, a B1-format sheetfed inkjet press purpose-built for packaging production. The launch marks a significant milestone in the accelerating digital transformation of the global packaging printing industry. For folding carton and corrugated converters, the message is clear: digital inkjet is no...
