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6 June: The winners of the FINAT Label competition and 1st FINAT Recycling Awards competition are announced on the occasion of the FINAT congress in Monaco.
26 June: FINAT introduces a new public affairs monitoring tool: Paper.li This tool is to help FINAT members stay up-to-date with the latest regulatory developments. It provides the latest updates on recycling and sustainability, food safety, REACH and biocides in one clear online magazine.
SEPTEMBER 2014
8 September: FINAT President Kurt Walker steps in for Tony White in the jury of the 2014 L9 World Label Awards competition. FINAT were successful in seven of the classes with three winning entries, four Honourable Mentions and, for the first time since its inception three years ago, a Best of the Best award. See page 60 for the results.
9-11 September: A FINAT delegation attends Labelexpo Americas, in Chicago, USA.
11-12 September:
YMC members attend the 2nd global young leaders congress, this time hosted by TLMI at the University of Michigan’s Packaging Research Institute.
22 September: FINAT Board member Chris Ellison addresses UK label converters on the occasion of Rotometrics’ open house.
30 September:
representatives from FINAT’s Regulatory Affairs subcommittee, ink experts and representatives from 4 national associations meet at Amsterdam airport to explore the possibilities of consolidating existing national food safety guidance and good manufacturing practice documentation into a single European Food Safety Guidance document. This results in the initiative to draw up such a document based on VskE’s guidance document (see also page 48).
30 September: FINAT MC & TC subcommittee meetings in Amsterdam.
OCTOBER 2014
1-2 October:
FINAT committee meetings in Amsterdam. FINAT management unveils the new
strategy to the working committees. Besides opening its scope (now extended from merely ‘self-adhesive’ to also embracing ‘adjacent’ converting technologies within the reach of self- adhesive label manufacturer), one of the major changes will be the rebranding of the FINAT congress into the ‘European Label Forum’. The new philosophy behind the congress will reflect FINAT’s vision on being the unique source of relevant knowledge, networks and information which is key to the strategic success of international label business.
24 October: FNAT managing director addresses label converters at Nilpeter’s wine label symposium at the company’s headquarters in Slagelse (Denmark).
28 October: representatives of the European label associations meet in Amsterdam to continue their half-yearly discussions on mutual subjects and initiatives. An important part of the agenda was dedicated to regulatory affairs, such as
the harmonisation of GMP guidelines for food labels; harmonised LCA guidance document for the label industry; ISO/TC122 WG14 Label materials work item; translation of the German Occupational Health and Safety Guides and the packaging & Packaging Waste Directive. Regarding the latter it was ascertained that although FINAT with the help of major stakeholders lobbied at EU level to not have release liner classified as packaging several years ago, some EU countries are upholding their own interpretation, and do regard liner as packaging. Austria is now one of the new countries to be affected by such an interpretation (see also article Public Affairs). The national associations deliberated on possible actions to inform their members of these developments.
Programmes undertaken by each of the associations and FINAT were also dealt with. These concerned: raw material trends indicators, events, the label associations’ portal, the role of the Labelexpo Advisory Board and last but not least FINAT’s new strategy.
NOVEMBER 2014
13 November: FINAT opens registrations for the annual label competition. The competition showcases the best of self-adhesive label print. It recognises and rewards achievement in terms of both end use/ marketing impact and print and converting quality. The results of the 2015 contests can be found on page 54
9 September: The L9 meets in Chicago.
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