Welcome.

Welcome to the Converter Questionnaire for the half-yearly FINAT RADAR Report. Once again, this addition of the survey is a special one, as we have included a number of questions associated with the current pandemic in addition to the current state of sustainability in the European labelling market. Our goal in asking these questions is to ensure our members have the most up-to-date data and information possible and to be able to compare and contrast their own company's performance given the rise of the pandemic to those of their peers within their own region, as well as different regions in Europe.

As a reminder, we are not asking for your contact information to ensure absolute confidentiality of all data. The results of this survey will only be presented in an aggregated format. If you do not know the answer to a survey question, please simply move on to the next question. If you have any questions about the survey or about the FINAT RADAR, please email jlejeune@lejeune.nl or jennifer@lpcprint.com.

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* 1. If your company is not a FINAT member and you are receiving this survey through your local association, please enter your email address below so that we can make sure to send you your copy of the FINAT RADAR report in the coming months.

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* 2. Please indicate your company’s revenues (turnover) for 2021 by checking one of the choices below (please include all company subsidiaries that print/convert labels):

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* 3. Please indicate the total square meters of the volumes of self-adhesive labels that you produce on an annual basis. (Important: This is for your self-adhesive labels only, not other types of labeling formats such as wet glue or shrink sleeves.)

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* 4. Please indicate where your factory is: (Note: Please check only where the factory you work in is located. If your company’s headquarters are in another country, please answer the questions in this survey applicable only to the factory that you work in.)

Regional definitions are as follows:
Scandinavia: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland
UK/Ireland: England, N. Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
Central Europe: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg
Southern Europe: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Cyprus
Eastern Europe: Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia.

Please use the drop-down menu below to indicate your region:

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* 5. We would like to report on year-over-year converter turnover for 2021. Please remember, we have no way of connecting any data with a specific company and the results will only be presented in an aggregated format. Please indicate your factory's total sales increase, or decrease, for 2021 compared to 2020:

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* 6. As with question #5 that asks about sales, we would like to track and report on year-over-year profit data for FINAT members per European region. Please indicate your factory's increase, or decrease, in profitability for 2021 compared to 2020:

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* 7. For the top five end-use sectors your factory serves, please indicate revenue growth, or contraction, per sector in 2021 by using the pull down menus below for each category your company sells products into. (By 'top five' we mean the five sectors that you produce the highest production volumes for.)

  % change
Food
Beverage
Health & Beauty Care
Pharmaceutical
Household Chemicals
Industrial Chemicals
Retail
Automotive
Consumer Durables (includes Electronics)
Office Products
Transportation/Logistics
Other

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* 8. As FINAT continues to track the way the current business landscape has impacted our members, we ask that you indicate the status of your company’s turnover in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the first quarter of 2021.

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* 9. We want to now ask what type of capital equipment purchases you will be making, or not making, in the future. This will allow us to present the aggregated data to FINAT members so companies can see where they stand. Please check the appropriate box for each type of capital equipment.

  Will purchase in 2022 Will purchase in 2023 Will purchase in 2024 Will not be purchasing until after 2024
Digital press
Conventional press
Continuous production equipment (butt splicer, turret rewinder, continuous matrix removal, etc.)
Screen printing equipment 
Finishing equipment (offline diecutting, offline print embellishment, etc.)

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* 10. Label converters are reporting that their digital business has increased significantly given the pandemic and the need for rush-driven ordering. If you have digital presses on your production floor, we ask that you indicate by how much your digital business has increased in 2021 compared to 2020:

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* 11. Once again, for the upcoming edition of the RADAR, we want to gauge the interest that FINAT member converters have in pursuing markets outside of self-adhesive labels in the near future. For each of the formats listed below, please mark what you feel is the response that is most appropriate for your company.

  Already Active Not active, not interested Not active, somewhat interested Not active, very interested
Self-adhesive labels
Pouches
Shrink sleeves
Flexible packaging
In-mould labels
Folding cartons
Wraparound labels (non-shrink)
Liner-less labels
Wet-glue labels

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* 12. This is the fourth time we will be featuring a special section in the upcoming RADAR report on the state of recycling among FINAT members in Europe. The following questions ask about your company’s current recycling practices in addition to your perceptions of a company’s ability to use available resources in the current marketplace.

Are you currently actively involved in a specific program for recycling your release liner? Please select the answer that best applies:

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* 13. What do you most typically do with your release liner (please check all that apply):

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* 14. As a label converter, how are you willing to support release liner and matrix waste reduction moving forward? (multiple answers can be checked):

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* 15. Introduction to Supply Chain Section:

Given the extreme challenges with the current state of the global supply chain, FINAT’s members have requested that we include a series of questions in this edition of the RADAR in order to track the current situation and the impact that it is having on our members.

For this question, we are trying to understand the impact on converters’ revenues that issues beyond the label supply chain are having. For example, if a bottling company is unable to obtain enough plastic resin to manufacture all the products that their own customers need, this would result in this customer purchasing lower volumes of labels.

Have your customers’ supply chain issues (with products other than labels) resulted in decreased volumes of products that they purchase from you?

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* 16. If you answered yes to the previous question, please tell us what percentage of your company’s revenues have been lost due to these types of supply chain issues that your customers might be having? (Again, this is separate from the label supply chain, we are asking about other packaging-associated products and the effects that this might be having downstream to impact our own industry.)

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* 17. We would now like to try to determine the impact on converters’ revenues that the label supply chain is having on companies like yours. Have supply chain issues for raw materials (labelstocks, inks, etc.) reduced your company’s revenues?

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* 18. If you answered yes to the previous question, please tell us what percentage of your company’s revenues have been lost due to supply chain issues directly within our own industry?

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* 19. With the current situation in Europe and the difficulty companies are having in sourcing paper-based raw materials, we want to ask if your company has witnessed some of your customers considering other print formats that are paper-less. Please check the boxes below that are applicable to your business currently (you can choose more than one):

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* 20. Given the current situation in Europe, we want to ask about the strategies that companies are using to fulfill their current backlogs. Please check the answers below that currently apply to your company. (You can choose more than one answer):

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* 21. For the last question, can you please tell us what your most significant concerns are for the year ahead? Please use the text box below for your answer:

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