North Bay Business Journal

The two largest wine label printing companies in the North Coast have been expanding through acquisition, organic growth and equipment upgrades in the past year and a half as sales of wine bottles have been accelerating.

NAPA — Wine label printer Tapp Technologies Inc. today said it plans to expand its California plant in Napa to a nearby facility this fall to “significantly” increase capacity.

NAPA — Collotype Labels, the North Bay’s largest commercial and wine label printer, now has a digital printing press at its Napa plant to complete prototype and other small-run jobs in-house.

NAPA – Two wine label printers have made significant equipment upgrades this summer with a new class of digital printing presses and one that reduces waste through automation.

NORTH COAST — Palo Alto-based HP, maker of the Indigo line of digital offset printing presses commonly used by wine label printers, plans to release a new version of the press late this year that may provide the speed local wine label printers say they need to take better advantage of digital printing.

PETALUMA — Paragon Label has acquired a digital offset label printing press to meet increasing demand from vintners for easily customizable novel or exclusive packaging.

PETALUMA — McCoy Packaging will be sticking around in Petaluma, but the 80-year-old label printer will look quite different after partial acquisition by Petaluma-based Paragon Label.