Avery Dennison opens distribution center in Romania

Avery Dennison has opened a new distribution center for its Fasson-brand self-adhesive labelstock in Timisoara, Romania. Serving customers in Hungary, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Serbia as well as Romania, the facility will ‘greatly enhance’ speed of delivery to the growing base of label converters in the region, says the company. Most converters in this region will enjoy next-day delivery services, which means, depending on country, up to three days' reduction in order lead times. This will help label converters increase their flexibility in responding to customer requests, and smaller labelstock inventories become an option.

The 3,750 square meter Timisoara facility is equipped with the latest slitting, core cutting, rewinding, and automated packaging equipment. It also makes custom roll slitting via the Fasson Exact and Exact Plus 'no waste' service programs locally available for the first time. These services enable printers to order exactly the slit widths of Fasson material they require, without any unusable additional offcut rolls.

Georges Gravanis, vice president, sales and customer service, Avery Dennison Roll Materials, commented: ‘In a region where, even in today's economic environment, there is real and growing demand for labeled goods, it is a logical focus for us to intensify our ability to be closer to our customers, understand their local needs, and enhance the speed of service we are able to give them.'

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