05.31.17
At this year’s European Label Forum in Berlin, taking place June 7-9, and organized by FINAT, the international label industry association, management across the value chain will come together to review and debate the past year’s developments and track the pathway for the future, in a strong, strategic business context.
The label industry recovered strongly from the global economic recession, with self-adhesive labelstock consumption growing in Europe overall between 2010 and 2016 at a cumulative 22.9%. While 72% of brand owners surveyed in FINAT’s the latest (2016) edition of the European RADAR market analysis stated that they would not be migrating from self-adhesive labels as their core technology choice, many label converters have broadened their production repertoire, alongside this traditional route to success, to include other popular label production options today – such as sleeve labels, flexible packaging, and in-mold labels – to create new business and enhance their status with demanding brand-owner customers.
Digital print technologies – inkjet-, toner- and laser-based – have joined narrow web flexo and litho print in the main stream of production; and, indeed, FINAT’s 2016 surveys for its RADAR analysis confirm that today about 10% of European label market sales revenue is produced digitally today. An additional feature of the Label Forum agenda will delve deeper into the subject.
Combining expert presentations, in-depth workshops, a supplier tabletop exhibition, peer networking opportunities and a social program for participants and partners, the FINAT European Label Forum, says Jules Lejeune, FINAT Managing Director, “represents a valuable starting-grid for the European label industry’s growth and profitability.”
The label industry recovered strongly from the global economic recession, with self-adhesive labelstock consumption growing in Europe overall between 2010 and 2016 at a cumulative 22.9%. While 72% of brand owners surveyed in FINAT’s the latest (2016) edition of the European RADAR market analysis stated that they would not be migrating from self-adhesive labels as their core technology choice, many label converters have broadened their production repertoire, alongside this traditional route to success, to include other popular label production options today – such as sleeve labels, flexible packaging, and in-mold labels – to create new business and enhance their status with demanding brand-owner customers.
Digital print technologies – inkjet-, toner- and laser-based – have joined narrow web flexo and litho print in the main stream of production; and, indeed, FINAT’s 2016 surveys for its RADAR analysis confirm that today about 10% of European label market sales revenue is produced digitally today. An additional feature of the Label Forum agenda will delve deeper into the subject.
Combining expert presentations, in-depth workshops, a supplier tabletop exhibition, peer networking opportunities and a social program for participants and partners, the FINAT European Label Forum, says Jules Lejeune, FINAT Managing Director, “represents a valuable starting-grid for the European label industry’s growth and profitability.”