In a competitive market, the industry’s demands on release liners are ever changing, but innovation is ever present.

By Missy Smith

Reardon concluded, “A real game-changer in the industry has not yet been identified, so, for the time being, changes will continue to be evolutionary. While that is good news in some ways, it is also bad news: evolutionary change can make you lazy,” he said. “We have heard over the last two days how important it is to embrace change positively, in order to stay competitive both in our market segments and geographically. There are still real growth opportunities in liner substrates—both paper and film—and we have heard how there are developments to create different dynamics from the supply side to take costs out on the production side.”