Seminar tackles sustainability issues for self-adhesive labels

By staff reporter

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The global self adhesive label association, FINAT, recently held a seminar in Barcelona to tackle key issues in this important sector, including sustainability.

Self-adhesive labels are a crucial element of personal care packaging and serve as the legal requirement to provide detailed ingredient labelling, but increasingly the segment is having to address wider packaging industry issues, including the impact to the environment.

The central theme for the biannual technical seminar was ‘Self-adhesive labels adding value', drawing an audience of 200 industry professionals during the two days it was held, March 11 – 12.

The seminar programme took into account the entire value chain, focusing on raw materials and new processes, with a specific focus on bringing both added value and enhanced sustainability to end-user customers.

Sustainability tops the packaging agenda

As sustainability is at the top of the packaging agenda these days, the seminar explored how companies can provide more sustainable solutions at the same time as contributing to costs savings and enhanced profitability.

Delegates learnt about how good environmental health and safety practices are crucial to this area, as well as how technologies such as reel-to-reel presses and linerless labels can also help to increase efficiencies and reduce the carbon footprint.

Guest speaker Mike Fairley, editor of Labels and Labelling magazine, gave a key note speech identifying how self-adhesive label providers can play an important role in the broader packaging category to help influence critical changes.

Key areas crucial to this broader picture discussed by Fairley included sustainability, environmental management and best practice initiatives.

Legislative developments

Likewise, delegates were also updated on the latest development in the legislative field, lifting the lid on how this is affecting developments in the industry, with a specific reference to environmental initiatives.

The seminar also addressed raw materials and technology, touching on recyling-friendly, dispersion-based, and UV hot melt adhesive developments, as well as digital print processes, prepress software, die cutting and tension control on reel-fee presses.

Likewise, there were also specialised presentations on RFID electronic labelling, as well as the use of holography as a means of providing an added value design feature to enhance labelling.

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