Adara Pakkaus of Finland stole the show at The FlexoTech International Print & Innovations Awards 2026 on Thursday 8 October, sweeping the “best in show” Supreme Award to go along with its category win in Corrugated post-print (E and F Flute).
The winning entry was a cake box for Marco Boulangerie, printed CMYK plus varnish on a Goepfert Ovation flexo press, using Siegwerk inks, Apex International anilox, plates from Esko and mounting tape from BiesSse. Prepress was handled by fellow Finns, Marvaco.
Judges paid tribute to the entry’s great detail “without a flaw in sight” on a demanding substrate and said it stood out throughout the judging process as “an example of best-in-class execution”.
In other categories, there were wins for three different Reflex Labels sites, as well as double wins for Interflex Sunderland and Flexure Print N Pack, who had flown in from India to attend the awards ceremony in London, hosted by popular actor Ralf Little.
Below is the complete list of categories, sponsors (in brackets) and winners:
Labels – printed on paper substrates (Dantex Group):
Reflex Labels Plus Keighley
Labels – printed on film substrates (tesa):
Reflex Labels Plus Barwell
Flexible packaging (narrow/medium web) on film (Bar Graphic Machinery):
Flexure Print N Pack
Flexible packaging (wide web) on film (Flint Group Packaging Solutions):
Interflex Sunderland
Flexible packaging on paper (Cheshire Anilox Technology):
East Riding Sacks
UV flexo on paper or board (Rotometrics):
Reflex Labels Newcastle
Corrugated post-print (A – D Flute) (XSYS):
DS Smith Livingston
Corrugated post-print (E and F Flute) (Anilox Laser Technology):
Adara Pakkaus
Best use of hybrid printing (Esko):
Label Tec Scotland
Process colours only (hubergroup):
Interflex Sunderland
Digitally printed labels and packaging (Xeikon):
Harkwell
Best use of embellishments (Edale)
Amberley Labels Boston
Promotional print ( MPS)
Clifton Packaging
Environmentally sustainable company (Apex International)
Desmedt
Innovation – printers and converters ( Gallus)
Flexure Print N Pack
Innovation – suppliers (Nutshell Trade Services)
Esko
Future flexo star (BPIF Labels)
Connor Lonsdale, Paranova Print & Packaging
Supreme award (Whitmar Publications)
Adara Pakkaus
