The 12th Annual Label Industry Global Awards was held at the Brussels Expo as part of Labelexpo Europe 2015, which is ending today. Kurt Walker, FINAT’s former President, was presented with the esteemed R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award.
Sponsored by Avery Dennison, the award is given to an individual who has made substantial contributions to the label industry over a minimum of 25 years. He received the award in recognition of his work with FINAT and in driving innovation and best practices throughout the international label community.
HP Indigo won the Award for Innovation (for companies with more than 300 employees) for its work in developing its HP SmartStream Mosaic software.
The Award for Innovation (for companies with up to 300 employees) went to joint recipients GEW and Lake Image Systems. GEW impressed the judges with its Rhino Electronic Power Supply, developed to enable the lowest possible operating cost for a UV-curing system. Lake Image Systems was honoured for developing MaxScan, the latest addition to its Discovery MultiScan family that provides benefits over traditional line scan camera technology, such as uniform 600-dpi inspection resolution and virtually no angular variation.
Lintec won the Award for Sustainability. Lintec has developed a new label facestock, KP5000, which uses the world’s highest percentage (80%) of recycled PET pellets.
“Choosing winners from such an impressive list of companies was always going to be difficult – and all of our winners and finalists truly deserve our utmost admiration and congratulations,” said Mike Fairley, Chair of the Judging Committee
“The awards are designed to showcase the depth and best of talent and achievement across the global label industry. All of this year’s entrants demonstrated enormous innovation, best practices and inspiring work. The awards go some way towards shining a light on the significant dedication, commitment and excellence going on each and every day in this exciting and dynamic sector.”
