FTA Announces 2020 Excellence In Flexography Award Winners FTA has announced the recipients of the 2020 FTA Excel- lence in Flexography Awards, the premier awards program for the flexographic industry. The award-winning prints and the companies behind them were announced during the FTA Awards Presentation on April 22, which kicked off the first of three days of Virtual FORUM 2020.
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THE HAIRE GROUP www.hairegroup.com
Haire Group is the premier provider of new machinery for the corrugated industry. As the exclusive US & Canadian agent for one of the largest machinery manufacturers in the world, Haire Group is able to pair clients with the best machinery solutions for the best value to meet their spe- cific needs. As an operating partner of the US-based DFA Technical Support Center (a joint venture of Haire Group and Dong Fang), Haire Group delivers top-notch 24/7 pro- fessional, reliable service and support, maximizing quality and uptime. Additionally, Haire Group has been the indus- try’s #1 pre-owned machinery broker and plant equipment appraiser since 1976. HarperLove is the leading provider of specialty adhesives, performance additives, and wet-strength resins to corru- gated packaging manufacturers. With the largest and most experienced field service and technical support team posi- tioned throughout the U.S. and Latin America, HarperLove has a long-standing reputation for providing outstanding service and delivering demonstrable performance improve- ments. HarperLove’s renowned services include not only innovative product development and custom product for- mulation, but also machine and process assessments, ad- hesive formula adjustments, machine tuning, detailed ser- vice reporting, and more. HARPERLOVE www.HarperLove.com
A total of 91 awards were given in this year’s competi- tion: Atlantic Packaging won Best of Show in the Preprinted Lin- erboard Category for its Erie Meats Chicken Breasts Poitrines de Poulet Box.
KIWIPLAN www.kiwiplan.com
• 32 gold awards • 30 silver awards • 28 bronze awards • 1 self-promotion award
Kiwiplan - premier worldwide software provider of enter- prise-wide, fully automatic solutions specifically for the cor- rugating and packaging industries. Kiwiplan’s Total Solution delivers comprehensive, seamless real-time flow of infor- mation from sales order management to dynamic total plant scheduling and inventory control through shipping.
“Converters are getting very innovative to bring new ideas and products to their brand owners and this year’s entries definitely showed it. Product embellishments con- tinue to display new innovations and decorative appeal, making the cream rise to the top,” said Excellence in Flex- ography Awards Committee Member Paul Teachout of PT Consultant Group. “It does not matter if it was from a larger converter group or a single-roof facility. We saw winners from all printers, big and small, and that is exactly how it should be.” From the pool of gold award-winning prints, six were recognized as Best of Show: • In the wide web category, Perfection Packaging’s Eta Uppercuts Corn Tapas Bag • In the mid web category, Sunshine FPC’s Eton Mess with Chargrilled Figs Wrapper • In the narrow web category, iTek Packz’s Himalaya Ayurveda Clear Skin Soap Carton
MAROTECH INC. www.marotech.com
Manufacturer of Marotape®, Marotape®Plus, Marotape® FPT and MaroString™; hot melt coated tapes and strings used for reinforcement and easy-open features for pack- aging. Marotech Inc. also manufactures state-of-the-art dispensing and tape placement equipments to optimize the productivity of applying hot melt coated tapes in pack- aging.
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