The Paper Chase Amid A Crippled Supply Chain
Along with multitudinous other commodities these days, paper has become quite precious. We’ve acknowledged the closures of both North American and European paper mills resulting in dramatically diminished production capacity. We’ve heard about the reduced availability...
Paper prices are on the rise. Here’s what’s going on.
There has been a profusion of paper industry news in 2021 and printers and publishers alike are dealing with the impact. Mill closures continue, as do mergers, acquisitions, and mills shifting focus to produce packaging materials. Production capacity is diminishing....
Keep on Truckin’… Now, more than ever
Things in this beleaguered industry got even tougher during COVID Even before the global pandemic affected pretty much everything about life as we knew it, the U.S. trucking industry was in crisis. An aging workforce quickly became a diminishing work force, as the...
Amid the Pandemic, Print Catalogs are Experiencing a Refined Renaissance
There’s no disputing what retailers and catalogers have long known. Catalogs (and their cousins, circulars) yield sales. And in the strange “up is down” year that was 2020, this was truer than ever.