FINAT, the European association for the label industry, has announced the winners of the second edition of its #LABELicious competition. The competition, launched in 2019, was designed to challenge students and young professionals interested in a career in the label industry to expose their talent in designing label solutions for the future. The winners of the competition, of which the judging had to be delayed due to Covid, were Sabrina Bento from Portugal and Bjarne Castelein from Belgium. The awards announcement immediately preceded the launch of the next edition, which will culminate in an award ceremony at Labelexpo Europe at the end of April 2022.

The 2021 FINAT Sustainability Award recognizes the efforts of the self-adhesive label value chain to reduce, reuse and recycle. The ten initiatives entered in the competition demonstrated a broad spectrum of approaches to increasing sustainability in the value chain for self-adhesive labels: systems for the collection of label waste, technical solutions for packaging for disposable and reusable packaging, circular approaches for face materials, sleeves and carrier materials and much more. The winners, CCL Label and Avery Dennison, were celebrated during last week's online award ceremony.

Excitement is building for the return of Labelexpo Europe 2022, the world’s largest event for the label and package printing industry.

FINAT will organise an online General Assembly on Thursday, 11 November at 16.00 CET.

Matrix and liner recycling challenges to be addressed by global CELAB consortium at world’s largest dedicated label and package print exhibition held in April 2022.

Unprecedented times have thrown an array of challenges to the Indian labels industry at large.

The wait is over. The unavoidable pause on label and package printing shows has seen industry pioneers develop an incredible amount of exciting technology with invigorated dynamism.

Over 700 visitors and 57 exhibitors attend first in-person Labelexpo Global Series event in US for two years.

At the Board meeting held on August 9th 2021 held in virtual mode, the board of directors of LMAI (Label Manufacturers Association of India) approved the appointment of Rajesh Nema Nema

The update to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive will not be finalized in 2021; a final round of stakeholder workshops is to take place in November