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LEADER |5<br />
LEADER<br />
EARTH SHOCK<br />
95 BOLIVIAN OPERATION<br />
A new partnership enables Argentine converter to take advantage<br />
of a growing market<br />
109 OPENING UP AFRICA<br />
The Tarsus group’s first African Label Summit was a great success<br />
There was a shocking moment at the recent Finat<br />
congress in Athens when Louis Lindenberg,<br />
Unilever’s global packaging sustainability<br />
director, told delegates that no solution exists to<br />
the problem of separating silicone from paper<br />
release liners so they can be recycled.<br />
How is it possible, asked delegates, that our<br />
industry has been unable to get this important<br />
message across to the world’s leading consumer<br />
product brand? In our industry circle we fully<br />
understand that the technical problems of desiliconization<br />
have been solved in Europe, with<br />
schemes offered by C4G and UPM Raflatac’s<br />
recently announced RafCycle program. The latter<br />
is based around UPM’s paper mill in Plattling,<br />
Germany, where the liner is processed into<br />
pulp to be used as raw material for UPM paper<br />
products – a true ‘cradle to cradle’ option which<br />
Unilever would surely welcome.<br />
The fact is that as an industry, we are not good<br />
at publicizing our achievements to the wider<br />
world, despite all the best efforts of organizations<br />
like Finat and TLMI, and now the G9 grouping of<br />
the world’s major label associations.<br />
What is needed is a forum through which we<br />
can communicate directly with the Unilevers<br />
and the P&Gs and let them know about the<br />
sustainability initiatives we are undertaking and<br />
how they can become a part of them.<br />
The biggest problem faced by Europe’s liner<br />
desiliconization plants is the failure of the big<br />
brand owners and their co-packers to collect, sort<br />
and return liner waste, even when our industry is<br />
offering to set up the logistics network. Too many<br />
end users still persist in seeing separation of liner<br />
waste as a cost rather than a sustainable solution<br />
to an issue which could still threaten the future of<br />
this most vibrant of industries.<br />
So after L9, why not L9+? Time to bring the<br />
brands into the labeling circle.<br />
REGULARS<br />
09 Inbox – Latest opinions from L&L’s social network<br />
ANDY THOMAS<br />
GROUP MANAGING EDITOR<br />
athomas@labelsandlabeling.com<br />
10 News – Lifetime Achievement award announced<br />
30 Mergers & Acquisitions – What is holding your<br />
company together<br />
62 Installations – Russian converter installs Cartes laser<br />
die-cutting system<br />
110 New Products – Schobertechnologies launches<br />
Sheetline SL 106<br />
120 Corporate Culture – Recognizing disruptive behaviour<br />
MAY 2012 | L&L
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