FINAT CONGRESS 2010

INTRODUCTION

Date:   9-12 June 2010
Venue: Hilton Valencia, Spain

The Congress Programme Committee chose ‘Creativity and innovation: the way for tomorrow’ as the theme for the event. The theme was a reflection of fundamental changes to be anticipated in the way label demand and supply will be connected in the years to come. As debated at various occasions before, self-adhesive labelling has matured in the developed markets and the business model in our sector, helped by the advance of digital technology is gradually shifting from ‘manufacturing oriented’ to ‘solutions oriented’. To inspire label industry executives and stimulate the dialogue about our common future, the Committee put together a speaker programme featuring leading thinkers in areas like value innovation, service, creativity, sustainability and future scenarios.

Special Feature: Blue Ocean Strategy
Pre-congress Management Workshop

New to this year’s programme was the interactive ‘Blue Ocean Strategy’ workshop (in English only), hosted by Prof. Ben Bensaou of INSEAD (F). Blue Ocean Strategy (BOS) is a revolutionary set of concepts and tools to help executives and organizations look for new ideas that create value for ‘customers’ and for the firm, and create potential sources of organic growth and new market spaces. Less of an obsession with competitive benchmarking and segmentation, the approach puts the customer at the centre of strategic thinking. It utilizes visualization and implementation-oriented frameworks to drive the simultaneous pursuit of superior value as perceived by customers and a low cost structure for the firm.

PROCEEDINGS

Participants will receive a link to the relevant page from where they can download the various presentations. In July the page will be moved to the members' only section under Library.

PICTURES

Click here to see pictures of the event. For high resolution images please contact the FINAT secretariat. 

SPEAKERS

	Adjiedj Bakas		Nigel Barlow
	Iban Cid		Jürgen Convent
	Frank Gerace		Jules Lejeune
	Sonia Raja		Paul de Ruijter

SPONSORS

We wish to thank the following companies for their generous support

Gold Sponsors

• Labelexpo Global Series/Labels & Labeling
• Avery Dennison Roll Materials Europe
• Frimpeks
• Gallus Ferd. Rüesch
• MPS Systems
• Nilpeter
• Xeikon (Punch Graphics)

Silver Sponsors

• 3M
• Bella Kagit
• Dow Corning
• ETI Converting
• Evonik Goldschmidt GmbH
• GEW (EC) Limited
• Herma GmbH
• Hueck Folien GmbH
• Innovia Films
• Kanzan Spezialpapiere GmbH
• Kocher + Beck GmbH
• Mark Andy Inc.
• OMET srl
• Radius Solutions (UK) Ltd.
• Ritrama S.p.A.
• Rotocontrol GmbH
• Sun Chemical/Coates Screen Inks GmbH
• Super Film Ambalaj San. Ve Tic. AS
• UPM Raflatac
• Zeller + Gmelin GmbH & Co. KG

FOOTBALL MATCH FINAT - ANFEC

One of the recurrent social events of the congress is the football match. This year the game was  between FINAT members and representatives of the Spanish national association ANFEC. Thanks to the unequalled cheers of the supporters, the players of both teams were highly motivated, which resulted in an excellent performance on the green. The game finally ended with a 5-5 score. We would like to thank all the players, the coaches and of course the organiser of the match, Mr Aydin Okay, Canpas, Turkey, member of the FINAT board who has been assigned responsibility for this event. The next football match will be played on Friday, 10 June 2011 in Sicily, between FINAT and representatives of the Italian association GIPEA. We hope you can join us there.