FINAT Sustainability Awards
The competition (originally called FINAT Recycling & Sustainability Award) was introduced in 2014 to recognize efforts of the industry in paper and film release liner recycling. In 2021 the competition was renamed into FINAT Sustainability Awards and will concentrate on sustainable practice in the broadest sense. All entries are judged by an independent panel of industry representatives.
FINAT Sustainability Awards 2022
The Award is aimed at showcasing initiatives from FINAT members, both converters and suppliers, that increase the sustainability of the self-adhesive label industry. Initiatives targetting environmental and social aspects of sustainability are encouraged to apply!
The competition is open to all FINAT members, and initiatives can involve multiple participants or stakeholders. Each FINAT member can submit one initiative for consideration of the jury. Initiatived will be judged in 2 categories: converters and suppliers. Initiatives will be grouped based on the yearly turnover of the submitting member: small and medium (turnover < €50M) and large (turnover ≥ €50M).
Submissions will be accepted from Monday 1 August until Friday 7 October.
Previous Winners
FINAT Sustainability Award 2021 - Packaging innovation thrives
The 2021 FINAT Sustainability Award recognized 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. The winners, CCL Label and Avery Dennison, were celebrated during an online award ceremony on 11 November 2021. Read the full report here.
| 2021 |
Avery Dennison, The Netherlands CCL, Germany |
Report |
| 2019 | Avery Dennison, The Netherlands | Announcement |
| 2018 | Coveris, United Kingdom | Interview |
| 2016 - End-user category | Brothers Drinks, United Kingdom | |
| 2016 - Label printer category | Hagmaier Etiketten & Druck, Germany | |
| 2015 - End-user category | Bel Leerdammer Cheese, The Netherlands | |
| 2015 - Label printer category | Helf Etiketten, Austria | |
| 2014 - End-user category | Unilever, United Kingdom | |
| 2014 - Label printer category | Hagmaier Etiketten & Druck, Germany |