Blogs

At FINAT’s European Label Forum 2023 held last June, Prof. Bram DeSmet explored the current state of the extended label supply chain. On the occasion of his previous appearance at the ELF in Baveno last year, most companies were facing the same...

At the General Assembly in Vienna, FINAT President Philippe Voet (Etivoet, Belgium) completed his first, 2-year term at the helm of the association. With a completely new team and in a revised committee setting, he is entering his second term....

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...

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...

Dear FINAT members, 2022 has come to an end, and as usual I would like to close our agenda by presenting you the 18th edition of the FINAT RADAR, our 6-monthly market monitor.

Labelexpo India 2022 made its return to India, in style and impressively. The show along with a glittering awards night at Expo Centre in Greater Noida was vibrant with activity and label industry gave a definite thumbs-up to this all-important...

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...

I am pleased to present to you the 17th edition of the FINAT RADAR, our association’s six-monthly market monitor. As usual in the first semester, the results are based on a survey among label converters around Europe that are a member of FINAT...

If we recap back to 2020, undoubtedly a lot of things have changed. We are talking not only about COVID's direct consequences, but also the indirect ones. And on top of that, many trends already existed, but the disease has promoted or speeded...