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Printing Trade Organisations - including Allied Industry Bodies
News Release from: FINAT
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 06 August 2007
Programme Prompts Label Printers To Be
World Class
With a new pilot project to be launched in September, FINAT, the self-adhesive label trade organisation, is aiming to encourage its members to adopt world class manufacturing (WCM) standards.
The driver for the project will be the reorganised Label Printing Forum, which aims to bring together its printing members in a spirit of mutual help Part of its programme is to provide a platform for keynote speakers from other industries to explain a range of management techniques that could be helpful to the printers in their search for performance improvement
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 20 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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FINAT president, Jan Frederik Vink, said: "We will be starting small in Amsterdam on September 6 with between 12 and 14 label printers and the big advantage of that is we can develop programmes and create the benchmark for our industry." Vink added that the adoption of world class manufacturing is vital as the label industry becomes increasingly globalised, although the bulk of the printers are still in the small to medium business category (SMEs) and will need the mutual help that a FINAT-inspired scheme can provide.
He explained: "I call it the Weight Watchers' principal - where we bring people in the same situation together so that they can help and encourage each other to find solutions.
This is going to be important if the SMEs in our industry are to put themselves in a position to compete with the bigger companies.".
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