The Supreme award at the 2018 FlexoTech International Print and Innovations Awards was given to Hamilton Adhesive Labels for its Kenkō Koi Fish Food Colour Plus entry.
The entry, which also won the Labels (process) award, was chosen for the top accolade by the judges who said, ‘We’ve been impressed at first glance and the more we were checking the quality, the more we were convinced to be looking at a really ‘first in class’ piece of work.’
The organisers described the event, which featured Patrick Kielty as the celebrity host and were held in a brand new venue, the Royal Lancaster London, as a resounding success. Almost 500 people from the flexographic industry gathered to celebrate some of the finest work completed by printers in the last year.
The winners of the categories are:
Labels (process)
Hamilton Adhesive Labels for Kenkō Koi Fish Food Colour Plus
Labels (line and tone)
MCC England for Pale Fox Vadle delle Volpi Asolo Prosecco
Flexible packaging narrow web
BRJ (Athena Graphics) for Marie Risotto aux Champignons de Paris
Flexible packaging medium web
Uniflex CJSC for Gotovim Vmeste spices
Flexible packaging wide web
Roberts Mart & Co for Espresso Monte-Carlo Velluto Bio 10 Capsules
UV flexo, paper and board
Reflex Newcastle for The Black Farmer Pork Mince
Sacks and corrugated pre-print liner
Smurfit Kappa CRP Pre-Print for Beck’s German Brewing Heritage 24 Pack
Corrugated post-print (C flute and above)
Smurfit Kappa Inspirepac for Naked Noodle Singapore Curry Noddle Pots 12 x 78g
Corrugated post-print (E and F flute)
Stora Enso Packaging Lahti for Kemppi Gamma Welding Helmet and Respirator
Combination printing
Leading Edge Labels and Packaging for Gillette Fusion 5 ProShield
Best use of process colours only
Interflex Group (Sunderland) for Nestlé Aero Purely Chocolate Bubbles
Any flexo print job previously printed by another process
DS Smith Packaging Belper for Purina GoCat Crunchy & Tender 4 x 800g
Digital labels and packaging
CS Labels for Hot Tub Nights Aromatherapy Crystals Pouches
Promotional print
FFP Packaging Solutions for Plastic Free Pouch
Innovation
Hamillroad Software for Bellissima DMS