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The annual forum for those concerned in the manufacture and use of release liners, the Global Release Liner Industry Conference & Exhibition, hosted by AWA Conferences & Events, takes place this year in Chicago.

News on suppliers to the packaging printing industry, including Agfa Graphics acquisition of The Pitman Company and HP’s VIP Labels & Packaging Event in Israel.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—PABS™ 2010, being held October 4-5, 2010 at the Hyatt Rosemont Hotel in Chicago, Ill., is an annual platform for experts in their respective areas: material suppliers, packaging engineers, packaging designers, brand packaging managers, and others interested in the brand protection.

The label market is in good shape. Although the recent recession has affected every segment of package printing, the label industry is still well positioned for the medium to the long term, according to Corey Reardon, president and CEO of AWA. "Unfortunately in the short term, the impact has been negative with plenty of casualties in job losses and business performance, even company and plant closures," he says.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—The annual forum for the manufacture and use of release liners, the Global Release Liner Industry Conference, hosted by Alexander Watson Associates (AWA) Conferences & Events, takes place this year in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 30-31.

If you're a package printer, you need to be keeping an eye on brand protection technologies. Slowly but surely, brand owners are realizing how important protecting their brands has become.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands—According to AWA Alexander Watson Associates, linerless labeling is experiencing a revival of interest in the light of the packaging industry’s focus on sustainability and reduced costs.

At a conference on release liners held last year, Corey Reardon, CEO of industry consultant AWA Alexander Watson Associates (www.awa-bv.com), commented, “We must not forget that the release liner industry is a producer of waste material after a self-adhesive application is completed. As it positions itself for the future, this becomes more and more of a critical issue.”

AMSTERDAM—The 17th International In-mold Labeling and Decorating Conference (IMLCON09 and IMDCON09), organized by AWA Conferences & Events and supported by the In-Mold Decorating Association (IMDA), is a conference totally dedicated to in-mold labeling and decorating and its technology and markets.

What goes up, must come down—so the saying goes. This could be used to describe the business climate during 2008 in any number of ways. In one way, both the going up and the coming down had significant negative effects.