Flexographic Printing Market Report 2025

This Flexographic Printing market report provides a comprehensive analysis of the market’s characteristics, size, and growth, including segmentation, regional and country-level breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends, and strategies. It also tracks historical and forecasted market growth across various geographies.

The flexographic printing market size has grown strongly in recent years. It will grow from $6.5 billion in 2024 to $7.11 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.4%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to growing cost-effectiveness, high-speed printing, versatility in substrates, quality and consistency, rise in packaging industry.

The flexographic printing market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $10.25 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 9.6%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increased demand for sustainable packaging, rapid growth in e-commerce, globalization of brands, evolving advertising and labeling needs, increasing focus on short-run printing. Major trends in the forecast period include innovation in anilox roll and ink delivery systems, rise in demand for printed labels and flexible packaging films, customization and short-run printing in packaging, implementation of process automation and workflow efficiency, expansion of flexographic printing in corrugated packaging.

The rising demand for packaged food products is expected to drive the growth of the flexographic printing market in the future. Packaged food products are food items that are pre-packaged to ensure shelf life and sterility, provided the packaging remains intact. The increasing need for packaged food requires the use of flexographic printing to create convenient, attractive, cost-effective, and lightweight packaging. Flexographic printing plays a crucial role in effectively marketing food products and providing information on their labels. For example, in May 2024, Beverage Marketing Corporation, a US-based consultancy firm offering services, data, and analysis to the global beverage industry, reported that retail sales surged from $229.2 billion in 2022 to $246.4 billion in 2023, representing a 7.5% increase. Therefore, the growing demand for packaged food products is fueling the expansion of the flexographic printing market.

The flexographic printing market is further expected to experience growth due to the expanding demand in the pharmaceutical industry. The pharmaceutical sector involves activities related to the research, development, manufacturing, and commercialization of pharmaceutical drugs. Flexographic printing proves beneficial in pharmaceutical packaging applications by offering efficiency, quality, and versatility. It facilitates faster production speeds, reduces the risk of smudging, and is well-suited for maintaining consistent print quality over extended print runs. According to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA), the total pharmaceutical production in Europe reached $384.2 billion (€340,000 million) in 2022, indicating a 4.95% increase from the previous year. The growing demand in the pharmaceutical industry is thus contributing to the growth of the flexographic printing market.

A key trend gaining traction in the flexographic printing market is technological advancement. Major companies in the sector are concentrating on developing innovative technological solutions to meet consumer demands and enhance their market position. For instance, MPS, a US-based company specializing in printing presses, launched E-Sleeve technology to improve print efficiency and quality. This technology incorporates pressure settings, precise concentric runout properties, increased dimensional accuracy, and constant parallelism, ensuring optimal register performance across the entire print length. The technology enables higher speeds, delivering results with assured quality tolerances and reliable production cost calculations.

Major players in the flexographic printing market are introducing new products such as LED platemaking equipment. LED plate making equipment involves using light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in the creation of printing plates. XSYS, a Europe-based company, launched the ThermoFlexX Catena-E 48 unit, designed for LED exposure of flexographic printing plates. This product offers a cost-effective ownership, portability, and high production levels, producing flat-top dot plates with exceptional quality. The confined exposure environment and minimal waste make it a sustainable choice for operation.

In June 2023, Constantia Flexibles Group GmbH, an Austria-based company specializing in flexible packaging and labeling solutions, acquired Drukpol Flexo Sp.zo.o., a US-based company focused on flexo-printed packaging. This strategic move aims to expand the global footprints and sustainable product lines of both businesses. Constantia Flexibles intends to enhance its industry standing by incorporating Drukpol Flexo's expertise and advanced technologies into its offering.

Flexographic printing is a contemporary printing method that produces raised images on diverse materials using a flexible printing plate affixed to a plate cylinder. The ink is transferred to the substrate by rotating the flexible inked plate at a high speed. This printing technique is commonly employed for high-volume printing of labels and packaging.

The primary types of printing equipment in flexographic printing encompass narrow web, medium web, and sheetfed. Narrow web printing, defined as any web with a width of 16 inches or less, is a rotary method featuring numerous in-line converting stages. Various technologies, including automatic and semi-automatic processes, are utilized in applications such as corrugated boxes, folding cartons, flexible packaging, labels, and print media. Flexographic printing finds application in diverse sectors, including industrial, print media, food and beverage, consumer electronics, pharmaceuticals, and others.

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Major companies operating in the flexographic printing market include Westrock Company, Amcor Limited, Barry-Wehmiller Group Inc., Rotatek Printing Machinery Co. Ltd., BOBST Group SA, Koenig & Bauer AG, Windmöller & Hölscher Corp., Komori Corporation, Flint Group Holding S.A., SOMA Engineering S.p.A., Mark Andy Inc., MPS Systems B.V., Gallus Holding AG, Star Flex International Limited, Nilpeter A/S, Edale Holdings Limited, Comexi Group S.A., Nuova Gidue S.p.A., Tresu Group A/S, R.K. Label Printing Machinery Private Limited, Aim Machintechnik Pvt. Ltd., Wolverine Flexographic LLC, OMET S.p.A., Allstein GmbH, Shanghai Printyoung International Industry Co. Ltd., Polygraph Limited, Shanghai Liu Xiang General Equipments Co. Ltd., Orient Sogyo Co. Ltd., Uteco S.p.A., Codimag S.p.A., Anderson & Vreeland Inc., Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG.

Asia-Pacific was the largest region in the flexographic printing market in 2024. The regions covered in the flexographic printing market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the flexographic printing market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Italy, Spain, Canada.

The flexographic printing market consists of sales of flexographic printing presses including, CI flexographic presses, stack flexographic presses and in-line flexo presses among others. Values in this market are ‘factory gate’ values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.

The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD, unless otherwise specified).

The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.

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