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FINAT’s role as an ‘umbrella organisation’, bringing together
Europe’s supply chain participants in the self-adhesive label
industry, would hardly be possible without the network of
national label associations that represent the industry at a
regional and local level: DLA, Denmark; UNFEA, France; VskE,
Germany; GIPEA, Italy; ANFEC, Spain; SLA, Sweden; ESD,
Turkey; and BPIF Labels, UK. To benefit the continuation and
expansion of sound, profitable and authoritative business
profiles for their member companies, these nine associations
are now working together in a positive spirit of exchange under
the auspices of FINAT, in pursuit of enhanced knowledge-
sharing at a variety of levels.
THE
NATIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
BOARD
NETWORK
ACTION STATIONS!
The self-adhesive label industry is more ‘together’ now that the national label associations in Europe and their
members and FINAT are working together as a coherent group through the establishment of the empowered
and active National Associations Board…
A
PRACTICAL
PATHWAY
It has taken time to establish a practical pathway. The creation
– four years ago -- of a National Associations Board (NAB),
with volunteer representation from almost all member
associations, has proved to be the right enabling device. The
group recently met to review progress on their jointly-defined
– and ambitious -- agenda, including topics as wide-ranging as
environmental concerns, joint trading standards, education and
training, statistics and benchmarking, international events
planning, and a shared internet portal.
NAB volunteer board members are familiar figures in the
industry, like
Robert Mägerlein (Germany), Chairman of
VskE
, which represents not only German label industry players,
but also many from Switzerland and Austria. Robert believes
continuity and stability are the key success factors for a local
industry group. ‘All our regional label industry associations
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FINAT YEARBOOK
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