The FINAT Technical Seminar is a biennial event which is designed to give an update on the latest status with regards to legislation, materials science, converting technology as well as application requirements and is targeted at all levels of the technical community from R&D or production to technical directors & executives.
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 and/or the national associations.
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Executive Summit to address critical issues facing the European label community.
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FINAT, the pan-European association for the self-adhesive and narrow-web industry, and the nine national label associations active in 15 countries across Europe, are jointly expressing our concern about the impact of the announced continuation of the dispute between the UPM paper mills and Paperiliitto, the Finnish paper workers union, by another three weeks till 12 March 2022.
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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
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An article on food-grade recycled plastics highlights some issues for these materials, and a Citizens' Initiative aims to introduce EU-harmonized DRS and EPR schemes for plastic packaging
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Eco-Score is a label for sustainability in food products based on LCA and including the environmental impact of packaging
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The Dutch institute KIDV released a web tool to assess the sustainability of packaging based on recyclability, circularity and environmental impact
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GBP 7M available for projects developing sustainable plastic packaging; applications open until September 8, 2021
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Several reviews seek to define sometimes confusing terms in the bioeconomy
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European Commission publishes anticipated Single Use Plastics guidance
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