FTA Issues 2002 Business Forecast North America’s more than 6,000 flexographic printing establishments will produce in excess of $85 billion of printed work in 2002, according to estimates by the Flexographic Technical Association (FTA). FTA is forecasting that growth of the flexographic printing industry will outpace the performance of the gross national product, coming in between 4 percent and 5 percent, as compared to slightly less than the 2 percent improvement expected in the U.S. ...