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Tag: Sustainability Excellence Award

FTA Announces Call for Entries in 2025 Award Competitions

BOHEMIA, NY— The Flexographic Technical Association (FTA) is excited to call for entries for the 2025 editions of its esteemed annual awards competitions, which shine a spotlight on excellence, innovation and sustainability within the flexographic printing/packaging industry. The FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards recognize high-quality and consistent flexographic printing, and the printers who produce it. […]

Hub Labels Wins a 2020 FTA Sustainability Excellence Award

In 2018, Hub Labels of Hagerstown, MD was sending 769,430 pounds of waste to local landfills. The company knew it wanted to change this practice—but how? The printer’s sustainability journey actually began more than a decade ago. In that time, it has implemented a number of processes, with the goal to recycle as much waste […]

Labelcraft Products Ltd Wins 2020 FTA Sustainability Excellence Award

When two customers of Pickering, Ontario, Canada-based Labelcraft Products Ltd were looking for a sustainable solution for their labels, the company came up with an idea—the Recyclable Enviroliner. Brian Tomlinson, president/owner at Labelcraft Products, explains that a traditional label release liner is made of virgin paper treated with a heavy coating of silicone that cannot […]

Emmerson Packaging Earns Honorable Mention in 2020 FTA Sustainability Excellence Awards

Emmerson Packaging, a flexible packaging printer that helps companies build their brands across North America, is a family run company in its third generation, with more than 300 employees across two plants in Nova Scotia and Ontario, Canada. The company says it has focused on sustainability since the early 2000s. “We have long believed in […]

Comexi Receives 2019 FTA Sustainability Excellence Award For Its Life Cycle Analysis

GIRONA, Spain—Comexi, a specialist in solutions for the flexible packaging printing and converting industry, has received a 2019 FTA Sustainability Excellence Award in the Innovations in Sustainability category for its Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) of its Comexi F2 MC flexographic press. The award was presented on May 5 at Forum 2019, at the Hilton New […]