Following the recently announced intensified collaboration, the leaders the world\u2019s label industry associations (*) held their second summit at the FINAT Technical Seminar in Barcelona early this month. As a result of this meeting they unite in endorsing the industry\u2019s commitment to a more sustainable and environmentally responsible future. They also wish to support the ongoing industry measures to further reduce the environmental impact of labels, encourage more sustainable label materials and production processes. In addition they wish to help meet changing industry and customer recycling targets, and to work towards the continued reduction of label waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the many measures that global label industry associations, suppliers and converters are already targeting are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 The promotion and encouragement of the use of environmental management and audit systems (ISO 14001, EMAS, LIFE) in the label industry
\u2022 Enhancing measures to inform, educate and support label producers in meeting current and future label environmental and sustainability targets
\u2022 Supporting the use of materials and schemes that encourage sustainable and renewable resources, such as FSC, PEFC or SFI
\u2022 Continued industry development of solutions to maximize cost-effective recovery and recycling of self-adhesive label stock waste
\u2022 Highlighting the development and use of thinner, lighter label materials
\u2022 Working towards further reduction in the amount of landfill waste and higher recovery and recycling rates
\u2022 Having a more prominent industry voice and input into global government, brand owner, packaging and related organizations that are currently impacting on environment and sustainability issues relating to labels and label usage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe label industry plays a major global role in the labelling of products as diverse as drugs, cosmetics and toiletries, food, beverages, all kinds of industrial and electronic goods, and in shipping and distribution,\u201d said Andrea Vimercati, President of FINAT, the European label association. \u201cIt is therefore essential for members of the world\u2019s label associations and the industry to play a prominent position in developing and implementing the best environmental and sustainability practices for their customers and for the consumer,\u201d Vimercati concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The members of the eight label associations currently endorsing these measures represent label production and usage in Australia, Brazil, China, Europe, India, Japan, New Zealand and North America and between them are believed to represent some 70% of the annual global production of self-adhesive labels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Editor\u2019s note
*Current participating global label associations include: LATMA (Australia), ABIEA (Brazil), PEIAC (China), FINAT (Europe), LMAI (India), JFLP (Japan), SALMA (New Zealand) and TLMI (USA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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FINAT, founded in Paris in 1958 and headquartered in The Hague (The Netherlands), is the world-wide association for manufacturers of self-adhesive labels and related products and services. With 600 members in over 50 countries around the world, FINAT has much to offer to label converters and all suppliers to the labeling industry in terms of information exchange and the opportunity to network internationally. www.finat.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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