The 2022 FINAT Sustainability Award recognizes the efforts of the self-adhesive label industry to increase sustainability. This year five initiatives were entered in the competition, covering innovative paper-based labels

Record attendance and brisk business marks first Labelexpo India show for four years.

In the third quarter, labelstock demand in Europe rebounded strongly, after a poor first half of the year caused by strike related paper shortages from Finland. For first three quarters as a whole, the European label industry recorded a modest growth of 1.7% compared to the same period last year. 

Tarsus Group, organizer of the Labelexpo Global Series, has announced that Labelexpo Asia 2022 will be postponed until 2023

FINAT expressed their concern on the plans of the European Commission to include a negative list of packaging characteristics as part of their revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive.

Labelexpo returns to BITEC, Bangkok, in February 2023 for Southeast Asia’s biggest dedicated label and package printing show.

With less than 30 days to go, Labelexpo India, South Asia’s leading labels and package print exhibition, is seeing participation from more than 250 industry-leading exhibitors and unprecedented number of visitor registrations.

The findings of an independent laboratory testing show that IPACKCHEM’s “Advanced In-Mould Fluorination” technology is fully compatible with both the natural and coloured high-density polyethylene (HDPE) containers recycling streams.

The FINAT label competition 2023 is ready to accept entries! All label printers are invited to send in their finest examples of labels, tags, sleeves, and flexible packaging products, so we can celebrate them! New this year is the additional category 'Hybrid Printing' under group B: Printing Processes. For more information, visit https://buff.ly/3ghmIUZ

This year, in our search for hotels in Athens for a possible ELF in 2024, I took the opportunity to visit two label printers that are members of our association: Cabas S.A. & Forlabels S.A. The following is the first report on Cabas S.A., how they perceive the label industry in Greece in general and what label printing means to them in particular.