Label Release Liner Report: Developments, Innovations and Challenges

Inline coating and converting
Vertical integration of the processes involved in creating a label have been successfully explored by ETI Converting Equipment; and Yves Lafontaine, VP marketing, took as his subject the reduction of release liner usage as one of the benefits of manufacturing inline. Siliconising, adhesive coating, printing, and diecutting of a web can be achieved in one machine pass using ETI’s equipment—saving set-up time and waste, as well as energy, and delivering positive advantages in flexibility and, of course, improved profitability resulting from the integration of two manufacturing processes—coating and printing labelstocks. He went on to evaluate linerless labeling—also achievable with ETI Cohesio technology, and delivering approximately 33 percent savings due to the elimination of the release liner, and 50 percent more labels per reel, and the company’s ultra-thin 12 micron film liner technology.