03.20.12
The Flexographic Technical Association’s 2012 Excellence in Flexography Awards competition aimed to rate the execution and degree of difficulty of nearly 500 submissions from every flexographic segment. This year, the competition’s 36 volunteer judges bestowed 130 awards; including 36 gold medals, 37 silver medals, 46 bronze medalists and three self-promotion accolades. Held annually, since 1960, to date more than 4,500 awards have resulted from the contests.
Formal unveiling of FTA’s 2012 award winners, came at a gala banquet held in conjunction with the organization’s 54th Annual Forum and 30th Edition of its INFO*FLEX Exhibition. The events are currently taking place at the Grand Hyatt and Henry B. Gonzalez Convention center, respectively. INFO*FLEX, which began at 12:30 pm, Monday, March 19, houses an “awards gallery,” where every winning print piece is on display.
“Last year, there were few awards that stood out with higher line counts. The percentage is higher this year with the expanded use of HD technology,” says Steve Mullins, Excellence in Flexography Awards committee chairman. “This is the second year that overall difficulty and quality have taken a sizeable step up. What I’m hoping for is a common sense approach to the application of new technology. And we’re starting to see what can happen.”
In the end, the following entries—all gold medalists--stood above the rest, capturing the highly coveted “Best of Show” in their respective classes:
Ampac Paper Inc. for P.S. Aéropostale Happy Fun Day
Plastic Packaging Inc. for Disney Take Along Treat
Labelad Ltd. for Southern Comfort Voodoo, Vampire, Zombies
Golden Era Group for Kellogg's Corn Flakes with Real Honey Cereal Box
Paper and Design GmbH for Just Refreshing Napkin
Advance Packaging Corp. for Mastronardi Produce Ltd. Gourmet Greenhouse Vegetables Tray
Rock-Tenn Co. for Greens Garden Kit
Encore Envelopes Ltd. For Club Med Envelope
By category, the 57 companies that earned 2012 Excellence in Flexography awards list out as follows:
NARROW WEB
ASL Print FX, Bay Tech Label Inc., Berry Plastics Corp., Cal Tape & Label Co., Cameo Crafts, Collotype Labels, G-3 Enterprises, HAVI Global Solutions, J. Ryan Printers, The Label Co., Labelad Ltd., Labeltronix, McDowell Label, Omet S.r.l., Publishers Printing Co.
WIDE WEB
Ampac Paper, Inc., Anagram International, Eye Corporate Planning Co. Ltd., Exopack, Folmex SA de CV, Jen-Coat Inc., Pioneer Balloon Co., Plastic Packaging Technologies LLC, PolyCello, The Robinette Co., Sunshine Plastics Corp., Tufco Technologies Inc., Yoshimoto Printing Co. Ltd.
MID WEB
Eagle Flexible Packaging Inc., Label Technology Inc., MPI Labels of Baltimore Inc., Perfection Packaging, Plastic Packaging Inc.
PAPERBOARD
Golden Era Group, Tetra Pak Jurong Pte. Ltd.
NAPKINS
Decoprint, InnoWare Paper Inc., Paper and Design GmbH
CORRUGATED
Advance Packaging Corp., Bennett Packaging, Golden Era Group, Great Lakes, International Paper Co. Inc., Lewisburg Container Co., Master Packaging Inc., Packaging Corp., SSCC-Castle Rock Display Group, United Engravers, Wellpappe Auerswalde GmbH
PREPRINT
Packaging Technologies Inc., Rock Tenn Preprint Canada Inc., Rock-Tenn Co.
ENVELOPE
Encore Envelopes Ltd., Mac Papers Envelope Converters Inc., Tension Envelope Corp.
STUDENT
California Polytechnic State University, Clemson University, Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School.
Formal unveiling of FTA’s 2012 award winners, came at a gala banquet held in conjunction with the organization’s 54th Annual Forum and 30th Edition of its INFO*FLEX Exhibition. The events are currently taking place at the Grand Hyatt and Henry B. Gonzalez Convention center, respectively. INFO*FLEX, which began at 12:30 pm, Monday, March 19, houses an “awards gallery,” where every winning print piece is on display.
“Last year, there were few awards that stood out with higher line counts. The percentage is higher this year with the expanded use of HD technology,” says Steve Mullins, Excellence in Flexography Awards committee chairman. “This is the second year that overall difficulty and quality have taken a sizeable step up. What I’m hoping for is a common sense approach to the application of new technology. And we’re starting to see what can happen.”
In the end, the following entries—all gold medalists--stood above the rest, capturing the highly coveted “Best of Show” in their respective classes:
Ampac Paper Inc. for P.S. Aéropostale Happy Fun Day
Plastic Packaging Inc. for Disney Take Along Treat
Labelad Ltd. for Southern Comfort Voodoo, Vampire, Zombies
Golden Era Group for Kellogg's Corn Flakes with Real Honey Cereal Box
Paper and Design GmbH for Just Refreshing Napkin
Advance Packaging Corp. for Mastronardi Produce Ltd. Gourmet Greenhouse Vegetables Tray
Rock-Tenn Co. for Greens Garden Kit
Encore Envelopes Ltd. For Club Med Envelope
By category, the 57 companies that earned 2012 Excellence in Flexography awards list out as follows:
NARROW WEB
ASL Print FX, Bay Tech Label Inc., Berry Plastics Corp., Cal Tape & Label Co., Cameo Crafts, Collotype Labels, G-3 Enterprises, HAVI Global Solutions, J. Ryan Printers, The Label Co., Labelad Ltd., Labeltronix, McDowell Label, Omet S.r.l., Publishers Printing Co.
WIDE WEB
Ampac Paper, Inc., Anagram International, Eye Corporate Planning Co. Ltd., Exopack, Folmex SA de CV, Jen-Coat Inc., Pioneer Balloon Co., Plastic Packaging Technologies LLC, PolyCello, The Robinette Co., Sunshine Plastics Corp., Tufco Technologies Inc., Yoshimoto Printing Co. Ltd.
MID WEB
Eagle Flexible Packaging Inc., Label Technology Inc., MPI Labels of Baltimore Inc., Perfection Packaging, Plastic Packaging Inc.
PAPERBOARD
Golden Era Group, Tetra Pak Jurong Pte. Ltd.
NAPKINS
Decoprint, InnoWare Paper Inc., Paper and Design GmbH
CORRUGATED
Advance Packaging Corp., Bennett Packaging, Golden Era Group, Great Lakes, International Paper Co. Inc., Lewisburg Container Co., Master Packaging Inc., Packaging Corp., SSCC-Castle Rock Display Group, United Engravers, Wellpappe Auerswalde GmbH
PREPRINT
Packaging Technologies Inc., Rock Tenn Preprint Canada Inc., Rock-Tenn Co.
ENVELOPE
Encore Envelopes Ltd., Mac Papers Envelope Converters Inc., Tension Envelope Corp.
STUDENT
California Polytechnic State University, Clemson University, Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary School.