Special Citation for Social Responsibility
Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch
By: LPS Industries
PATH is an international nonprofit organization committed to improving the health of people around the world. PATH wanted to identify and prove effective a packaging system for better delivery of a single dose of Nevirapine to reduce mother-to-child HIV transmission. This was most challenging in developing countries where many births occur outside of the healthcare system. This solution has provided women with Nevirapine syrup to take home in a simple, robust, and tamper-evident single-dose package.
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Highest Achievement Award—Packaging Excellence
Gold—Packaging Excellence & Technical Innovation
Smack Pack System
From: Wyeast Laboratories Inc.
By: Ampac Flexibles
Smack Pack is the first pouch within a pouch liquid yeast package for making beer and wine. The inner packet contains a liquid malt nutrient base, and the outer packet is a sealed retort pouch. To activate the yeast, the end-user guides the inner packet to the corner of the outer packet, holds this area in one hand, and firmly smacks the package with the other hand. This breaks the inner nutrient packet, allowing the contents to interact and start metabolizing. |
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Gold—Packaging Excellence
Buitoni Pasta and Sauce Pouches
By: CLP Industries Ltd.
Buitoni used shaped pouch technology to maintain its sauces distinctive profile on the supermarket shelf, easing loyal customers transition from jars to microwaveable pouches while drawing new shoppers to its products with luscious graphics and novelty. Echoing the contours of the sauce pouch, Buitoni introduced pouched fresh pasta that may be stored at ambient temperature, reducing handling costs and logistic challenges. |
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Gold—Packaging Excellence
Curwood Express Tote™ marketed as the Miller Lite Chill Bag™
By: Curwood, Inc., a Bemis Company
This entirely new flexible packaging style is able to hold and comfortably transport 18 cans of beer. The bag's two-part construction adds structural integrity and creates extra space for ice. Other features include sturdy nylon handles, a wide-mouth opening, and a convenient slider zipper. Metalized film and eye-catching graphics help the bag stand out from other beverage packages. |
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Gold Printing Achievement
Hershey Mounds Island Orange (11.1 oz.)
By: American Packaging Corporation
The use of flexographic digital plates resulted in achieving the high quality design that Hershey desired. A combination of DuPont FAST digital plates and high-strength inks create a package that jumps off the retail shelf. The superior graphics reproduction creates a package that has excellent store shelf presence to achieve the customers goal of capturing unplanned consumer purchases. |
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Gold Printing Achievement
New York Style Organic Pita Chips
By: Genpak LP
The use of Opaltone has created an image that has great shelf impact and is cost effective at the same time. The use of matte polypropylene created the natural organic look for the consumer and satisfied the marketing needs of the customer, creating a win-win package for marketing and purchasing. |
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Gold Technical Innovation
Cryovac® Flavour Mark™ Retort Pouches
By: Cryovac Food Packaging Division, Sealed Air Corporation
The manufacturer claims these shelf-stable pouches provide better, more consistent flavor and texture than food packaged in #10 cans. Food does not take as long to heat in a low-profile flexible pouch as it does in a can, so it endures less heat abuse during the retort process. Other benefits include lower material costs, more efficient labor and storage, safer handling, and lower waste disposal costs.
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Gold Environmental Achievement
Malto Bella Gourmet Malt Balls
By: C H Packaging, a Subsidiary of Appleton
This package represents an environmentally friendly solution through the use of non-volatile inks and adhesives. At the same time, the superior graphics and bond strengths give the customer the shelf appeal and package functionality they demand. The water-based inks and adhesives renewable resources produce excellent graphic quality while eliminating odors and retained solvents. |
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Silver Packaging Excellence
Dale and Thomas™ Gourmet Popcorn Showpack™ Bag
By: Printpack Inc.
This package is the only snack food application in North America that uses a true flat bottom pre-made bag. The natural look and feel of the substrate's matte finish and its enhanced graphic appeal provide brand building potential and integrate nicely to promote the product's premium quality. Consumers benefit from the bag's convenient press-to-close reseal feature and its improved product protection. |
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Silver Packaging Excellence
Cheez-It Gripz (0.9 oz.)
By: Bemis Flexible Packaging, Milprint Division
This value-added, easy-opening package targets on-the-go consumers with advanced laser scoring technology in a specific shape to direct the tear and limit the opening to the top corner of the package. The laser technology enables users to offer consumers a consistent-opening package without negative impact on the multi-layered flexible package's barrier and physical characteristics. |
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Silver Packaging Excellence
Maxwell House Café Collection (16 Pod)
By: Alcan Packaging
This package incorporates custom built proprietary in-house sealant film and top quality rotogravure graphics to make the Maxwell House brand stand out in the coffee category. The package offers excellent resistance to bursting, and rigorous hermetic seal testing ensures freshness. The package possesses proprietary laser scoring at the zipper line to allow easy opening, and a zipper provides convenient re-close. |
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Silver Packaging Excellence
Smucker's Uncrustables Grilled Cheese (3.5 oz.)
By: The Robinette Company
This sandwich wrap has eliminated moisture retention by using a lightweight paper substrate. The spot adhesive that is applied during the printing process is heat-sealed on existing poly-packaging equipment. This win-win package has eliminated a serious problem for the customer at no additional cost. |
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Silver Printing Achievement
Margaritaville Chicken Wings
By: American Packaging Corporation
This reverse printed package uses DuPont FAST digital flexographic plates to significantly improve graphic reproduction. This technology provides increased image sharpness, brighter colors, higher ink densities, a smoother vignette, and cleaner text. The enhanced graphics combined with superior design reproduction increased retail shelf presence to capture consumers attention at the point of purchase. |
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Silver Printing Achievement
Perdue Popcorn Chicken
By: Nordenia USA
In response to demand for convenience, Perdue took the lead when they moved to this hooded stand-up pouch. The package gives the consumer a simple means of tampering detection and boosts confidence in product safety. The slider offers easier reclosure and better product protection from freezer burn. Rotogravure print further enhances the graphics and adds to the shelf appeal of the product.
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Silver Printing Achievement
John Soules Foods
By: Sonoco Flexible Packaging
Rotogravure printing presents the absolute best shelf appeal for retail sales, and the customer believes the way it pops will help sales. They believe the presentation is so vivid it stands out on the displays, making shoppers take notice and try the product. The package is a marriage of the beauty of the pictorial presentation with the beast of the fine family quality of the products inside. |
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Silver Technical Innovation
McCormick® Finishing Sauce
By: Ampac Flexibles, a division of Ampac Packaging
In order for the stand-up pouches to be both retortable and microwaveable for this category leading structure, Ampac Flexibles had to develop a pouch without a foil layer that could withstand the temperature of the retort (250° F; 120° C). The additional heat-sealed, cool grips feature enables easy handling after microwaving (45 seconds from shelf to table). |
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Silver Technical Innovation
Dual Logo Snickers Bar
By: Bemis Flexible Packaging, Milprint Division
What makes this wrapper so unique is that the UPC is printed in the transverse direction (TD) and there is print copy located in the eye track. This enables the consumer to view print copy from every angle while increasing the branding real estate. The resulting package meets the brand's need but does not compromise UPC integrity or packaging line speed. |
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Silver Technical Innovation
Old Dutch Restaurante Premium Tortilla Chips
By: Genpak LP
The die-cut window roll stock addresses both manufacturing and consumer issues that are commonly present with premade bags. The packer is able to increase outputs through automation and at the same time produce a much improved package with better package stability at a reduced cost. The package eliminates the issue of product infestation, lengthens shelf life, and improves product freshness. |
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Silver Technical Innovation
Toughened Flow-Through Boil-in-Bag Package
By: Pliant Corporation
An innovative combination of materials is used to upgrade an existing perforated film for boil-in-bag applications. This package addresses concerns of tears and punctures that would allow the product to leak out of the bag prior to boiling. This innovation uses coextruded films to deliver a heat resistant surface, a toughened core, and a sealant layer that will survive the boiling process. |
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