FINAT’s history book is the coming thing

Written by Gerard Molenaar

Monday, 07 April 2008 13:59

To celebrate its Golden anniversary this year, FINAT, the self-adhesive label trade association, is compiling a 200-page commemorative history book that promises to become the Golden Treasury of the industry. Former FINAT secretary-general Mans Lejeune, father of the present managing director, Jules Lejeune, and an editing committee are now preparing the rich tome for its publication at the organisation’s Golden anniversary congress to be held in Paris on June 19 and 20. Besides being a record of FINAT and its members’ achievements, the book will be the definitive history of self-adhesive labelling from its inception by Stanton Avery’s invention of the pressure sensitive label in 1935 and the way in which a great number of other pioneers, many of them active in FINAT, particularly in the field of machinery, dies and materials, made the system work. Mans Lejeune said: “Great care will be taken to make the book the story of individuals as much as of an industry.” To this end, all FINAT presidents since 1958 who are still alive, and other committee chairmen and industry personalities, will be contributing and all the milestones, including the part played by the Labelling Competition in advancing inventive and quality solutions, will be covered. Appropriately for an industry centered on the importance of label design and illustration, the book will be highly illustrated with historic pictures. Mans Lejeune is being assisted by Ron Spring, Tony White and Mike Fairley.

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