Product Competition Award Winners

Product of the Year

The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) bestowed its Product of the Year Award* on the Consumer Packaging Division of Graphic Packaging International (GPI), Marietta, Georgia, for a series of oval holiday canisters for Kleenex tissues from Kimberly-Clark Corp., ...

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Packaging: Food & Beverage: Technical

The judges also named six category winners, which received either Marketing or Technical Awards. GPI also captured the Technical Award in the Food Packaging Category for a susceptor package it converts for Red Baron Fire Baked and Brick Oven Pizza Singles from Schwan’s Consumer Brands North Am...

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Packaging: Food & Beverage: Marketing

The Marketing Award in the Food Packaging Category goes to the Packaging Division of Uflex Ltd., Noida, India, for a PET/mPET/polyethylene stand-up pouch for chocolates from Cadbury India Ltd., Mumbai, India. Uflex serves as a single-source provider as the substrate supplier, printer (rotogravure), ...

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Packaging: Nonfood: Marketing

In the Nonfood Packaging Category, Hazen Paper Co., Holyoke, Massachusetts, captured the Marketing Award. Hazen Paper served as the substrate supplier and metallizer for a holographic slip case for the Elvis 75th Anniversary DVD Collection from Warner Home Video, Burbank, California. The slip case w...

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Packaging: Nonfood: Technical

Hazen also won a Technical Award in the Decorative Display Category for a magazine insert publicizing its custom holographic capabilities and sustainable practices. Hazen served as designer, substrate supplier, metallizer, and converter for the Rose Among Thorns insert. The 10-point, coated-two-side...

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Decorative/Display: Marketing

The Marketing Award in the Decorative Display Category goes to FLEXcon Co. Inc., Spencer, Massachusetts, as the substrate supplier for indoor floor advertisements for Tecate beer from Heineken USA, New York, New York. Dunmore Corp., Bristol, Pennsylvania, served as metallizer, and Performance Printi...

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Other: Marketing

As its third win in the 2011 competition, Hazen Paper took home the Marketing Award in the Other Category for the holographic cover it designed, embossed, metallized, and laminated for the Super Bowl XLIV Exclusive Stadium Collection Edition program from H.O. Zimmerman, Inc., Lynn, Massachusetts. Th...

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The judging panel consisted of Vince DiTrolio, vice president/owner of DiTrolio Flexographic Institute, Broadview, Illinois; Travis Funk, senior packaging engineer, Diageo, Norwalk, Connecticut; Jeffrey T. Weber, research principal, Kraft Foods, Glenview, Illinois; Stan Kopecky, principal, SJK Packa...

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