L9 Group Announces Label Award Winners
The L9 group of international label associations are pleased have announced the results of the 2017 L9 World Label Awards (WLA) competition judged by an international panel of judges representing each of the participating associations. The judging took place in Brussels, Belgium, the day before Labelexpo Europe at the exhibition venue. The L9 is an alliance of global label associations formed to jointly formulate policies and collecting strategic information of global interest to the world- wide label industry. Associations involved in the 2017 competition in- cluded FINAT (Europe), TLMI (USA), JFLP (Japan), FPLMA (Australia), SALMA (New Zealand) and PEIAC (China) and LMAI (India). In order to be considered for entry in this competi- tion a label converter must first have won an award in their “local” association’s competition, as this is the only route to entry. Each L9 association is permitted to submit one entry in each class, entries from indi- vidual converters are not accepted. The following winners used the flexo process in their entry submissions. Flexo Line —Winner: SALMA, Rapid Labels, New Zealand for “NZ Sunscreen Pure Shade” Flexo Line/Screen — Winner: TLMI, Label Im- pressions Inc., USA for “Deva Curl Buildup Buster” Flexo Color Process — Winner: FPLMA, Label Force, Australia for “John West Calamari”; Honor- able Mention: SALMA, Admark Visual Imaging Ltd, New Zealand for “Moana” Flexo Wine/Spirit — Winner: JFLP, Takara Pac Ltd., Japan for “Chablis Wine Label; Honorable Men- tion: SALMA, Rapid Labels, New Zealand for “Crag- gy Range Wild Rock Pinot Gris 2016”; Honorable Mention: FINAT, Royston Labels, United Kingdom for “King’s Cross” Combination Line — Winner: SALMA, Rapid La- bels, New Zealand for “Floating Oil Snapper”; Hon- orable Mention: FPLMA, Label House, Australia for “Pale Ale Birra Zonzo” Combination Line/Screen — Winner: TLMI, Mc- Dowell Label & Screen Printing, USA for “Perfor- mance Nutrition” Combination Color Process — Winner: JFLP, SUNMEC Co. Ltd., Japan for “Denen Fuka” Box Label” Combination Wine/Spirits — Winner TLMI: Multi-Color Corporation, USA, for “Octopoda Caber- net Wine”; Honorable Mention: JFLP, MARU-SIN Co. Ltd., Japan for “NEI (Japanese Shochu”
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