Label Release Liner Report: Developments, Innovations and Challenges

This year’s seminar did not disappoint. A full program of papers, plus a lively Q&A session and a tabletop exhibition, made the day a real forum for information exchange among industry participants, who came from many corners of the world and many levels of the label release liner value chain.

Global label market overview
AWA Alexander Watson Associates—parent of AWA Conferences & Events—is a global business-to-business market research, publishing, and advisory services company with a unique industry focus on the specialty paper, film, packaging, coating and converting industry. The company’s president and CEO, Corey M. Reardon, opened the seminar proceedings with an informed overview of the global label market—encompassing wet glue, sleeving, in-mold, and flexible packaging, as well as the core topic of pressure-sensitive labeling. Overall growth in this sector in 2011 is estimated to be at around four to 4.5 percent, with pressure-sensitive labeling growing at 3.7 percent. Pressure-sensitive labeling represents 39 percent of the total label market, Reardon showed, of which 50 percent is in prime label applications and 50 percent in functional variable information print.