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MARK ANDY and Flint Group were joint
winners of the Innovation award
GUILLAUME CLEMENT, global business director,
Narrow Web business unit at Flint Group presents
award to Peter Overbeek, md Eshuis
XEIKON'S FILIP WEYMANS gives Sustainabilty
award to Avery Dennison's Don Nolan
and approval to print and delivery to the bottling sites. Gregory Bentley,
Coca-Cola Europe’s innovation manager, was also present at the awards
and congratulated Overbeek on his ‘indispensible contribution’ to the
success of the project.
The Award for Sustainability, sponsored by Xeikon, was presented to
Avery Dennison for its Bottle-to-Bottle Portfolio of pressure-sensitive labels.
Developed to address critical barriers to the effective recycling of PET
bottles, the ‘B2B’ portfolio utilizes a new generation of pressure-sensitive
adhesives, developed by Avery, which incorporate a ‘switchable’ adhesive
which adheres to PET surfaces until a bond is broken at the recycler, so
cleanly releasing the label from the PET. The judges saw the innovation
as offering major sustainability benefits for global consumer products
end-users.
The Label Industry Global Award for Innovation, sponsored by Labels &
Labeling, NarroWebTech and Label & Narrow Web magazines, was jointly
won by Mark Andy and Flint Group Narrow Web for their efforts in commercializing
UV LED curing. Flint Group was honored for its Ekocure UV LED
ink technology and Mark Andy for its complementary ProLED ink curing
technology. Taken together, the ProLED curing system generates savings
in excess of 50 percent when compared to traditional HgUV systems
and has advantages in areas such as heat management. Although the
components of UV LED technology has been around for some, this is the
first time a commercially available system has been seen operating on
each print station of a flexo press running at full speed.
This award attracted a record number of entries, and the judges also
singled out Nuova GiDue’s ‘Digital Flexo’ technology and JM Heaford’s
new plate mounting system for particular praise.
Mike Fairley, chair of the judges commented: ‘Congratulations to all of
the finalists and winners. The label industry continues to serve as a shining
example of innovation and passion for best practice in business. Striving
to set the highest possible standards and raise the bar across the printing
industry, the label sector is one of the most exciting, inspiring and vibrant
marketplaces to work in and everyone who took part in this year’s awards
program should be exceptionally proud of their achievements.’
WLA PRESENTS ‘BEST OF BEST’
To celebrate the 21st year of the World Label Awards the L9
group of label associations has inaugurated a ‘Best of the
Best’ competition, the winners of which were announced at
the start of the Global Label Awards evening.
The winners were selected from the winners of the
World Label Awards competition held each year just before
Labelexpo Brussels and Chicago.
The awards were presented by FINAT president Kurt
Walker and Tony White, chairman of the World Label
Awards judges.
The Best of the Best Awards were:
• Combination Printing: ‘The Colour Pinot Noir 2009’,
printed by Rapid Labels, New Zealand
• Letterpress Printing: ‘Pates de Fruits’ printed by
Chugoku Seal Printing Co., Ltd., Japan
• Offset Litho Printing: ‘Diamond Wax’ printed by
Yamada Fine Art Printing Co., Ltd., Japan
• Flexographic Printing: ‘Rennie Estate Winery 2009
Gaia’ printed by ASL Print FX, Canada
• Digital Printing: ‘Buy 3 Tires promo’ printed by Digital
Label Solutions Inc., USA
ABOVE IMAGE: Flint Group and Mark Andy win innovation award
(L-R) Steve Katz, L&NW; Andy Thomas, L&L; Niklas Olsson,
Jennifer Joyce, Guillaume Clement, Flint Group; Greg Palm, Mark
Andy; Wolfgang Klos-Geiger, Etiketten
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