DuPont Packaging Graphics hosts awards ceremony

DuPont Packaging Graphics held its eight Grand Prix Cyrel ceremony on June 3-5, 2010 at the Rey Juan Carlos Primero Hotel in Barcelona, Spain. The awards ceremony took place in conjunction with the Flexo Print Pack Congress, along with presentations by DuPont, Manum Management Group (Spain) P’Preference (France), Uni Packaging (France), BoFrost and Tetrapak (Italy). 

‘Once again the International Grand Prix Cyrel represents a significant milestone for the packaging printing industry,’ said Björn Meth, business director, DuPont Packaging Graphics EMEA. ‘The works awarded at the ceremony showed an impressive level of quality that is clearly overrunning previous award winners.’ 

Since 1982, the Grand Prix Cyrel competition seeks to promote the growth of flexography within the printing packaging industry. It demonstrates packaging technologies and techniques and fosters strategic exchanges among packaging experts worldwide. 

Award recipients were drawn from more than 750 submissions coming from the flexographic printed packaging industries of Africa, France, Greece, Italy, Middle East, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and United Kingdom. 

The flexo printing packages submitted were evaluated on criteria such as design, substrate selection, quality and difficulty of reproduction and printing, and final printed package appearance and functionality. All submissions were divided by category: flexible packaging, carrier bags, bags on paper, tag and label, corrugated post-print B flute and coarser, corrugated post-print E flute and finer, corrugated pre-print, sacks, folding cartons, best conversion and other specialties. 

The following companies won in their respective category the eight International Grand Prix Cyrel 2010 trophies:

Bags on paper
Trade shop - Thema studio
Printer - Carpad 

Carrier bags on film 
Trade shop - Flexoservice topcolor
Printer - Imball center 

Corrugated post print           
Trade shop - Imagelinx

B flute & coarser                  
Printer - Smurfit kappa 

Corrugated post print           
Trade shop - Ability                                                 

E flute & finer                       
Printer - Cartonajes Santorroman

Corrugated pre-print 
Trade shop - Schawk UK Ltd                          
Printer - SCA Packaging 

Flexible packaging (narrow web)       
Trade shop - Medialliance                             
Printer - Morance Soudure 

Flexible packaging (wide web)
Trade shop - Pixel Tec Emb Flex sl
Printer - Graficas Llinars        

Folding carton/beverage carton (solid board only)     
Trade shop -  Paragon Print and Packaging Ltd                     
Printer - Paragon Print and Packaging Ltd 

Sacks on film
Trade shop - Digitalflex
Printer - Inn-Flex srl 

Sacks on paper                      
Trade shop - Rotoflex
Printer - Fiorini International Italia 

Tag & label (narrow web)     
Trade shop - Guidotti Centrostampa
Printer - Guidotti Centrostampa           

Best conversion & other specialties            
Trade shop - Ovelar S.A.                                         
Printer - Ovelar S.A.       

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