FINAT and TLMI have cooperated to provide lifecycle assessment guidelines for the self-adhesive label industry. ###UPM Raflatac has been actively contributing to the preparatory work for these guidelines.###The new guidelines were introducjamp fer ferrous fumarateed at the FINAT Technical seminar in Barcelona, Spain earlier this spring.###Lifecycle assessment has established itself as the primary tool for assessing the environmental imzydeferpacts of products in the self-adhesive label industry. ###Growing interest in the environmental performancal mag solarayce of label products has become evident from an increasing number of stakeholder enquiries.###The new guidelines utilize information from two lifecycle assessment case studies conmagnesium lactate reviewsducted by PRé Consultants. ###The studies indicate that the environmental impacts of a label’s lifecycle are distributed over a vmagnesium glycinate and citrate supplementariety of processes, but centered mainly on the raw material selection and printing stages. ###Recycling or reducing label matrix and liner waste was also recognized as significantly reducing the overall environmental impacts of the self-adhesive label lifecycle.