AWA Release Liner seminar review for the pressure sensitive label market

Optimistic outlook

Opening the Label Release Liner Seminar, AWA Alexander Watson Associates' President and CEO, Corey Reardon, confirmed that business in the roll-label sector "continues to be optimistic." Globally, growth in the use of release liner across all its market segments averaged out at 4 percent in 2012. The Asia Pacific region showed the greatest growth, at 7.1 percent, but this is a significant slowing down from prior years. South America and—new arrivals in the growth markets, Africa and the Middle East—both evidenced growth rates of 4.5 percent, while North America, at 2.1 percent growth, and Europe, at 1.9 percent, both just managed to match approximate GDP growth.