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News Release from: FINAT
Edited by the Printingtalk Editorial
Team on 22 February 2008
Self-Adhesive Label Body Celebrates 50
Years
FINAT's annual conference will be staged in Paris, 50 years after a meeting in that city led to the creation of the self-adhesive label industry organisation.
The organisation said that this year's congress will be on the theme of future decoration technology and pressure sensitive labelling, as well as staging a forum based on a brand owner's perspective of the future Delegates will hear about the history of FINAT and packaging and about value innovation and where the industry's future lies
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 20 May 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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FINAT will present its vision about developments to come, whilst those attending can also obtain a perspective about the French label industry in the context of European label market developments, which in turn will be put into the macro economic perspective.
FINAT and its co-host UNFEA, the French national label association, have secured a range of first speakers, including label industry observers and commentators Mike Fairley and Corey Reardon of AWA Alexander Watson, as well as packaging specialists Robert Opie from the Museum of Packaging and Frans Boumans of ING Bank.
Also in attendance will be association the president of FINAT, Jan Frederik Vink and Dominique Durant des Aulnois, the president ofUNFEA, together with Jules Lejeune, FINAT's managing director.
The event's keynote speakers will be Marc Touati of ACDEFI), Ben Bensaou from INSEAD and mountainneer Cathy O'Dowd.
The conference programme's moderator will be Hans van Grieken of Capgemini, whilst former FINAT secretary-general and the association's historian Mans Lejeune will introduce the FINAT 50th Anniversary Book to commemorate the occasion.
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