Label Release Liner: Looking to the Future

A label printer’s ‘wish list’
Eric White, managing director of Skanem Scandinavia, ended the presentations with a label printer’s ‘wish list’ for the provision of pressure-sensitive labelstock. He asked that any supply chain innovations should take into account the printer’s needs and any possible additional costs—e.g., for new dies in the case of thinner materials. He asked, too, that release liner should be available in a limited range of standard sizes. He observed that the industry still needs to develop a film liner at an acceptable cost and environmental profile; and finally added that “the next step in the development should be a linerless solution.”