Report on AWA Seminar: Label Release Liner Issues, Opportunities

Considerable dichotomy surrounds label release liner today. Its quality and performance are not in question—as leading brand owners confirm through their continuing preference for pressure-sensitive labeling for premium products. Equally, release liner—whether paper- or film-based—is fully recyclable and sustainable. It is, however, at the end of its working life that label release liner finds itself lacking an appropriate and unified modus operandi for transition back into the processing chain for recycling and re-use.