Business confidence has returned to the self-adhesive label sector in Europe although total demand is still showing a decrease over the equivalent period of last year, FINAT, the industry’s global trade association, reports.
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The first signs of recovery on the world self-adhesive label industry probably began late last spring but, as with the start of all ‘green shoots’, only the merest tip of growth was showing. It is going to be some while until we begin to gather a harvest comparable in size to the ‘good old days’ of self-adhesive label printing…but the signs are there.
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From 14-19 September 2009, the system specialist for self-adhesive labels, sleeves and labelling technology will again be exhibiting in Munich.
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Torraspapel, part of the Lecta Group, now boasts 6 production sites with EMAS environmental accreditation. Over the course of the previous year, the Group’s coated and uncoated paper mills, its pulp mill and self-adhesive manufacturing site all successfully completed the strict environmental review required by the EMAS regulation. With this certification of the Uranga mill, Torraspapel’s base papers, used in the manufacture of carbonless paper, now meet the same requirements.
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Schreiner Group has developed a bleed-stop solution in which an extremely thin laminate is placed over the label, protruding two millimetres (0.08 inches) from the label edge.
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Two awards will enrich the STI Petőfi Printing House Ltd., which have been won at the contest of prime printed products, the Pro Typographia professional competition. The purpose of this open, public competition, which is organized every year, is to introduce the excellent products of the Hungarian printing houses to the public and make them compete. This year there were 11 categories.
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Visitors to this year's Labelexpo Europe in Brussels, 23-26 September, will be provided with a full insight into the wider world of label and narrow-web print. Flint Group Narrow Web is providing several solutions to piece together the increasingly complex puzzle of successful narrow web label printing.
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Complementing the company’s existing label production facilities and designed to comply with its strategic commitment to cost- and waste-reduction policies, international label converting specialist Skanem has invested in a PRATI JUPITER TC400 slitter rewinding inspection machine. Installed in its Danish premises at Hobro, the PRATI label inspection unit features Varycontrol tension management software, and offers fully automated tensioning and cutting, improving overall productivity and throughput.
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FINAT members are being invited to attend ‘cyber-clinics’ in the comfort of their own offices as the self-adhesive label trade association launches an imaginative series of problem solving webcasts, starting with an examination of sustainability in an eco-conscious world.
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