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GLOBAL WINE LABEL MARKET: AWA provides a current value chain overview

Since the supermarket shelf today represents the prime source of wines for consumer purchase, the same rules of shelf ‘stand out’ apply as for other retail products. It is of paramount importance to ‘make the brand speak, and, while wine packaging as a whole -- from glass bottle to bag-in-box, carton, and pouch -- is a highly-active field of endeavor today, the prime contributor to high-visibility shelf appeal remains… the simple wine label.

Label release liner seminar: The pressure-sensitive label segment represents nearly 50% of release liner usage

One of the highlights of the release liner and label industry’s year is the AWA Label Release Liner Industry Seminar, held annually in conjunction with Labelexpo in both Europe and North America. The 2016 seminar in Chicago brought together nearly 100 delegates from across the value chain to discuss and update their knowledge, and to network with peers and industry experts.

North America: Digital Design and Automation Influence Molding Productivity

Trends shaping the North American plastics industry include growing use of advanced digital design and manufacturing software and increased automation of production. Recent developments give companies throughout the product chain more ways to optimize operations, speed products to market and increase competitiveness.

Dealing with large QR codes

By Helmut Schneider

Pharmaceutical serialization for China: The QR code that becomes obligatory for all veterinary medicines in China from June 30, 2016 is presenting most pharmaceutical producers and flat carton manufacturers with significant printing challenges.

Serialization is not the same everywhere

By Michael Urso

In recent years, laws and regulations have been passed in many parts of the world to mandate the serialization and/or track & trace of prescription drugs. They differ from region to region in many small details. Three principal questions keep recurring, however.

Clever Ways Your Packaging Can Be Greener

By Soopak

Everyone is interested in implementing ways of doing things that will protect our planet. As the manufacturer of a packaged product, you can jump on the “green” bandwagon by exploring ways that you can package your product in materials that will be kind to our earth, rather than spending the next few centuries in an already burgeoning landfill.

Where are the Growth Opportunities in Printed Packaging?

By Bill Michael

Eight. That’s the average attention span of a human, which, if you’re wondering, is one second less than that of a goldfish.

THE RELEASE LINER’S INDUSTRY’S ANNUAL FORUM CONFERENCE

Notes from the 2016 AWA Global Release Liner Industry Conference & Exhibition

The More Company Communications Changes, the More it Stays the Same

By Andy Marken

On my office wall I have two images Picasso’s Don Quixote de la Mancha and the unofficial military public information crest, “Last to Know … First to Go.”

It’s tough getting the entire corporate team moving in the same direction and doing/saying the same thing when you are:
- Constantly tilting windmills to slay dragons
- Not certain if the team is going in the same direction as part of a parade or someone is intent on running others out of town

How Does Electron Beam Technology Work?

Electron beam (EB) technology works not by drying a liquid until it becomes a solid, but by actually changing the chemical composition of the material being targeted.