Afera – “From the Gulf to the coating line”
For Europe’s adhesive tape industry, the conflict involving the U.S., Israel and Iran is no longer a distant geopolitical crisis. It is feeding into the economics of tape production, affecting energy, petrochemical inputs, freight, lead times, pricing and customer demand across the value chain. The diplomatic picture remains fluid, but that has not restored normal […]
Vetaphone – Building on a legend
Eighteen months after his appointment as CEO at Vetaphone A/S, Michael Behrens spoke with our correspondent Nick Coombes about his role and responsibility to build on the foundation laid by the Eisby family in pioneering surface treatment technology. You became CEO of Vetaphone in late 2024. What was your first impression of the role? Michael […]
Cellcoat boosts productivity at Labelisten
Deep in Bavaria, close to the Czech border, is a unique example of how a meeting of like minds can create a printed packaging business model that is pioneering sustainability. The number of occasions when real ‘blue-sky’ thinking is brought to a successful commercial reality in our industry are few, very few! But the cooperative […]
RK Print Coat – “Coating adhesive webs”
Speed of throughput, speed of delivery is critical, but so too is quality. Speed without quality is as harmful to the reputation of a converter as missed delivery. Judging whether coating or laminating is a success is very much dependent upon how well processing fundamentals are controlled as the moving web makes its way through […]
FPE – Strong opposition against reopening or delaying the PPWR
Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE) reiterates its strong opposition to any attempt to reopen or delay Regulation (EU) 2025/40 on Packaging and Packaging Waste (PPWR), following recent calls from parts of the industry to postpone its application and review key provisions. FPE acknowledges that several implementation challenges remain and are limiting the ability of the supply […]