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...
blogsI 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...
blogsIf 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...
blogsNo-one can really predict the future, even though some say that the future is ours to make.
blogsAfter the outbreak of the Pandemic at the beginning of last year, 2021 has been another turbulent year that demanded the utmost of our adaptability. A year ago, my predecessor already praised our industry’s stress resistance, when demand for...
blogsLast month, we reported about booming demand for self-adhesive labelstock in the first half of 2021 in response to the general economic recovery in Europe, especially in the second quarter. Throughout the past 12 months, we reported about supply...
blogsThe FINAT Calendar for 2021 is halfway. Normally around this time, preparations for Labelexpo Europe in September would be in full swing, but now that the show has been moved to April 2022, 2021 will be the second year in succession without...
blogsWith just over a month to go till the online ELF, we have completed a full cycle since the outbreak of the Pandemic here in Europe. What looked like a converging pattern of slowing growth between the general economy and our industry since 2017,...
blogsToday, 4 March 2021, it is exactly one year ago that we did not meet in Barcelona. After long deliberations late in February, the Board and organizing programme committee decided to pull the plug and postpone the Technical Seminar. Even though...
blogsTo call this a challenging year would be the understatement of the year (and where I come from this would be an achievement in itself).
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