Page 12 - FINAT Yearbook 2019

1. KNOWLEDGE LEADERSHIP
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The first star is related to our ambition to be
the leading international network for business
and opinion leaders in our industry. By
bringing in the best minds and experts in core
disciplines like management, marketing and technology, we aim to provide our members with relevant contacts, knowledge, interaction, inspiration and actionable ideas that will help our industry in staying ahead of the curve. This year’s 5th edition of the European Label Forum confirms our determination to provide an agenda that is up to date with the business challenges that our industry’s decision makers are facing. In that spirit, this year we added a new feature to the ELF programme in the form of the Converter-only Roundtable sessions held last Wednesday afternoon.
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REPORT &
ANALYSIS:
THE EUROPEAN NARROW WEB MARKET
FINAT RADAR 11 1ST SEMESTER 2019
Nowadays, self-adhesive or PSA is an
established technology and many of our
businesses are diversifying into areas like
short run flexible packaging, sleeves, pouches
and even cartons. This requires the ability of our member companies to continuously upgrade their know-how and competence on new developments in areas like substrates, inks, adhesives, silicones, liners, linerless, printing, prepress, cutting, coding, embellishments, finishing, workflow automation, applicators etc. We are very pleased to be a partner with the Label Academy in documenting and sharing knowledge about existing technology to provide permanent education to our workforce. Our Technical Committee
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The second element of ‘leadership’ especially focuses on our future leaders. Our current, 60th anniversary year coincides with the 10th anniversary of FINAT’s Young Managers Club. Now rebranded into the Young Professionals Network. Its tagline, ‘Shaping the future of the label industry’ clearly expresses the new ambition to not just focus on internal value, but also to more actively contribute to the mainstream activities of FINAT.
2. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
FINAT TECHNICAL HANDBOOK
continues to be instrumental in documenting best practice, and they are working step by step to release the 10th edition of the FINAT Technical Handbook and convert its 30 FINAT Test Methods into animated videos in the coming years in order to further enhance their status as global industry standards.
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In the context of reaching out to the next
generation, we have broadened our scope to
now also reach out to the younger generation
of students and young professionals between
the age of 18 and 25 who are at the doorstep of choosing the first step in their professional career. As I explained last year,
this is one of the top three challenges keeping owners and
managers awake at night now that our current workforce is
TEST METHODS
10TH EDITION
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12 | FINAT YEARBOOK 2019
Under the first header I would also like to mention our 6-monthly FINAT Radar market reports, alternatively reporting about the ‘internal’ state of affairs of the label converting industry during the first semester and about the ‘external’ brand-woners perspective during the second half of the year.
ageing, technology innovation is demanding new skills and competences, and younger ‘tech’ industries are competing with our industry to get the best talents in. For this reason, we have dedicated our 60th anniversary to a special project: the #LABELicious Competition. A sophisticated paid social media campaign via Instagram and Facebook made sure that the competition reached hundreds of thousand of students in this age bracket fitting the three core profiles that we are after: ‘Geeky George’ (engineering) ‘Creative Charley’ (design) and ‘Sustainable Susan’ (management). After the award ceremony of the competition at Labelexpo Europe 2019, we will evaluate whether and how the knowledge and experience that has been built up with this special anniversary project will be carried forward as the start of a new on-going activity.
3. TECHNOLOGY AWARENESS
finat - the association for the european self-adhesive labelling and adjacent narrow web converting industries
(Revised edition 2019)
knowledge leadership
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT
technology awareness