New president unveils FINAT strategy

David Harrisson, multinational sales director of the Skanem self-adhesive labels
group, has been elected president of FINAT.
Also at FINAT's General Assembly, three new members were elected to the association's board. They are Frdric Leyval, General Manager of JPL Etiquette
(France), Jaume Puigb, Chief Executive Officer of Sinel Systems (Spain),
and Keld Thorsen, Managing Director Labels of Stralfors (Sweden). At the
General Assembly, Helmut Schreiner of Schreiner Group (Germany) and
Iban Cid of Germark (Spain) stepped down.
Harrisson unveiled a three point strategy at the FINAT Congress in Baveno Italy,
when he told members: ‘We are committed to promote FINAT and to grow its
membership, improve membership benefits, help train end-users to use our
products more efficiently - and to increase awareness about the relative
strengths of our products in comparison with other forms of product decoration.’
FINAT promotes the interests of self-adhesive labelling companies and has more
than 400 members in over 40 countries.