At the Committee Summit in Amsterdam held on 16 February, nearly 40 participants contributed their energy and expertise to set the targets and tasks for 2023 and 2024. The meeting was an important step in FINAT’s transition from its traditional two dimensional structure to a four dimensional layout directly linked to our association’s current ‘Four Pillar’ strategy. Instead of the two plenary Technical and Marketing Committees, FINAT’s volunteer workload has now been divided into four ‘Workstreams’, each representing one of the four pillars ‘Community’, ‘Knowledge’, ‘Collaboration’ and ‘Advocacy’

Informa has reached agreement with Charterhouse Capital Partners and other shareholders to acquire Tarsus, the leading international B2B group, for an initial enterprise value of $940m.

After a wait of almost five years Labelexpo Southeast Asia returned to BITEC in Bangkok on 9-11 February, with 7,448 visitors from 84 countries attending over the three days

FINAT, the European association for the label industry, is pleased to announce the programme for its European Label Forum 2023, to be held from Wednesday 31 May till Friday 2 June at the Hilton Park Vienna (A).

The opening speech of FINAT President Philippe Voet at the FINAT Committee Summit on 16th February last, revealed an eagerness to jointly discover and further develop FINAT’s future roadmap that has been under scrutiny since 2021.

Rapid increase in label manufacturing capacities, the pandemic, strike in Finnish paper mills, Ukraine war, re-emergence of Covid in China brought margins under intense pressure. Opinion & comments of label printers across India was sought on how to drive-in better margins.

The organizers of the inaugural Labelexpo Mexico 2023 will host an educational webinar ahead of the show, due to take place over 26-28 April at World Trade Center, Mexico City.

CELAB-Europe, a collaboration of the whole self-adhesive label value chain, has announced the launch of their new website that includes an interactive map that lists liner and matrix recyclers in Europe.

Labelexpo Southeast Asia 2023, the region’s leading show for label and package printers, is set to take place at BITEC, Bangkok between 9-11 February.

Nick Davison has taken over from Lisa Milburn as managing director of the Tarsus Labels division, organiser of the Labelexpo Global Series of exhibitions and summits and publisher of Labels & Labeling magazine