The $1 Trillion Market That Quietly Swapped Its Contents: In 2025, the Reason to Buy Press Equipment Changed
Even when a market looks huge, investment doesn’t flow in a single direction. In 2025, “high-throughput + automation for commercial/on-demand” and “corrugated CAPEX warped by consolidation and overcapacity” happened in the same year—and forced print businesses to update the yardstick they use for equipment decisions.
In 2025, the global printing market was estimated at roughly $1.0 trillion. What happened on the equipment floor, though, wasn’t a simple story of “the market grew.” In the same year, some processes attracted investment while others froze—and even the order patterns of equipment makers changed shape.
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Coverage: 2025 · Written: Aug 16, 2026. Market reports are written after official statistics for the period are released. US BLS indexes include preliminary values, which may be revised for up to four months.
Translated from Japanese by AI. The Japanese original is authoritative.
Deals pause before a trade show, then move the moment it ends. When a major customer consolidates, investment plans stop before you even see it in plant utilization.
In 2025, the equipment market saw more moments where these “shop-floor realities” overwrote what the headline statistics seemed to say.…
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Sources
- Smithers「Key trends in screen vs digital printing」 / 2025-06
- Smithers「Smithers forecasts 54.3% growth in digital print」 / 2025-05
- Smithers「transition for offset to digital print」 / 2025-02
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 生産者物価指数（系列 WPU0913・公開APIから取得）
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 生産者物価指数（系列 WPU0911・公開APIから取得）
- PRNewswire（Keypoint Intelligence発表） / 2025-06-26
- BOBST investor release「BOBST Group 2025 results impacted by lower sales and US tariffs」
- HEIDELBERG press release（FY2024/25, 2025-06-05 PDF） / 2025-06-05
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