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Sustainability Competition Award Winners

The Sustainability competition honors equipment, materials or processes that reduce environmental impact, minimize energy usage or waste, and/or increase recycling.

Sustainability Award

FLEXPET™ Green PET Films

Flex America Inc.

FLEXPET™ Green PET Films

The Association of International Metallizers, Coaters and Laminators (AIMCAL) bestowed its Sustainability Award on Flex America Inc., Elizabethtown, Kentucky, for its biaxially oriented polyethylene terephthalate (BOPET) film with 30 percent renewable content. Ordinarily, PET is made from a polymeri...

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The judging panel for the 2013 Sustainability Awards Competition included Vince DiTrolio, vice president/owner of DiTrolio Flexographic Institute, Broadview, Illinois; Jeffrey T. Weber, research principal, Mondelez International Inc., (formerly Kraft Foods), Glenview, Illinois; Stan Kopecky, princip...

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