The supply of newspaper and composition board is under severe pressure . In Finland , for example , paper mill have been on hit since January , and some French factories have also stopped production this calendar week . The European label makers ' association hasissued a warningand expects a complete impasse of the industriousness within a few hebdomad because there is no more paper usable .
" scare is the first Good Book that total to mind , " says one of the largest recording label printing machine in the saucy produce sector . " In Finland there have been strikes since 3 January and 80 % of the glassine paper used for label for the European market comes from Finland . We are n’t getting any paper and so we ca n’t make labels . The rap has in any case been confirmed until 2 April , and no one experience what will fall out after that . We are now getting paper from everywhere we can to provide our customers . "
Empty shelves"The prices are much higher . The choice at the moment is : you either get labels or you do n’t . And if you want labels , you will have to pay one and a one-half time as much as usual . I used to give price for three months , now we only give prices for a week . With the cushy fruit season come near , this is also a dire situation for many fresh produce companionship . If you take a good look at the supermarkets , you see that the shelves are already empty . And add without a label is unmanageable . "
Scenarios come to brain with simpler labels , where , for example , only the type of tomato and the Mary Leontyne Price is list instead of all the logos and supererogatory info . Understandably , the news is presently all about other thing , and this news seems to have been altogether overshadowed , even though it will have a great shock on many . broth will dry up eventually . In England , printing process pressing have been stand still for weeks because they simply can not get any newspaper . Moreover , we are spring by purchasing quotas " , says the pressman .
Alternatives are scarcely available , he says . " Some customers are switching to plastic backing paper . But not everyone can sue PET automatically without modification . Especially the sensors for reflex labelling lines do not recognize PET . The only choice is exotic materials from Asia , South America , and the Middle East , but that is not the quality we are used to . big e - Commerce Department parties are now appear at the possibilities of printing the label directly on the loge , without a recording label . But even then the boxes have to be available . "
Nino Venezia of Dutch Graphic Group from Venlo also recognize the affright in recording label land . " The prices of label materials have risen by 40 % in one year . The giving global manufacturers can apparently suffer the personnel casualty due to the strike in Europe , they make so much money that there are no serious negotiations with the strikers in Finland . "
Nino and Gino Venezia
" The position is really flakey . I used to buy truckloads at the same time and the livery was reasonably warm , but now an parliamentary law time of ten , twelve week is no longer an exception . What ’s more , the price has tripled in the meantime . Label printer are already at a standstill . fortuitously , I saw the situation follow in June of last class and buy up an additional truckload here and there , as a event , that we are still able to operate at full focal ratio in Venlo . For us , the supply of Polypropylene - PP is the biggest challenge at the moment . We are act upon daytime and night to get that supply .
The situation has pass Dutch Graphic Group to annunciate a client full point . " We are deluge with new petition , but we want to be there for our existing customers in the first station . They merit our living . We are really protecting our customer at the moment who have always had confidence in us . A man is a man , his word is his word . But under the Modern tenders , I put that they are valid for three twenty-four hours and also calculate on what material is in farm animal at the metre . latterly I was able to grab a globe tender with a dear price , but I do n’t issue localize prices anymore , the situation is too volatile for that at the consequence . "
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