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Wyeast Laboratories, Inc. “Smack Pack” System
Ampac Flexibles, A Division of Ampac Packaging
Highest Achievement Award Winner in Packaging Excellence
(Also a Gold Award Winner in Technical Innovation)
Wyeast Laboratories has launched “Smack Pack,” the first “pouch within a pouch” liquid yeast package for beer and wine making. To activate the yeast, the inner packet (containing a liquid malt nutrient base) is located and guided externally to the corner of the sealed retort pouch. This area is placed in the palm of one hand and firmly smacked with the other hand. This breaks the inner nutrient packet allowing the contents to interact and start metabolizing.
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Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch
LPS Industries, LLC
PATH is an international nonprofit organization committed to improving the health of people around the world. One of their key programs was to identify and prove effective a packaging system for improving delivery of a single dose of Nevirapine to reduce mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus. Achieving this goal in developing countries was challenging due to the high prevalence of births outside of the healthcare system. This solution has provided women with NVP syrup to take home in a simple, robust and tamper-evident single dose package. |
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Buitoni Pasta/Sauce Pouches
CLP Industries Ltd.
Gold Award Winner in Packaging Excellence
In the switch from jars to stand-up pouches, Buitoni used shaped pouch technology to maintain its sauces’ distinctive profile on the supermarket shelf, easing loyal customers’ transition to new packaging while novelty and luscious graphics draw new shoppers to its products. Echoing the contours of the sauce pouch, Buitoni introduced pouched fresh pasta stored at ambient temperature, reducing handling costs and logistical challenges. Microwaveability, easy-opening laser scores and lightweight construction enhance consumer convenience.
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Cryovac® Flavour Mark™ Retort Pouches
Cryovac Food Packaging Division, Sealed Air Corporation
Gold Award Winner in Technical Innovation
Cryovac® Flavour Mark™ shelf-stable pouches provide better, more consistent flavor and texture than food packaged in #10 cans. Due to its lower profile, food does not take as long to heat in a flexible pouch as it does in a can, so it endures less heat abuse during the retort process. Pouches provide processors and foodservice operators with various benefits when compared to cans including lower material costs, more efficient labor and storage, safer handling and lower waste disposal costs.
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Curwood Express Tote™ marketed as the Miller® Lite Chill Bag™
Curwood, Inc., A Bemis Company
Gold Award Winner in Packaging Excellence
The Curwood Express Tote™ marketed as the Miller® Lite Chill Bag™ is an entirely new flexible packaging style able to hold and comfortably transport 18 cans of beer. The bag’s two-part construction adds structural integrity and creates extra space for ice, making it an on-the-go cooler pack. Other features include sturdy nylon handles, a wide-mouth opening plus a slider zipper for easy transport, product access and recloseability. Metallized film and eye-catching graphics help the bag stand out from other beverage packages.
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Hershey Mounds Island Orange, 11.1 oz
American Packaging Corporation
Gold Award Winner in Printing Achievement
The use of flexographic digital plates resulted in achieving the high quality design/package Hershey desired. American Packaging Corporation utilized a combination of DuPont FAST digital plates and high-strength inks to achieve a package that jumps off the retail shelf. The superior graphics reproduction creates a package that has excellent store shelf presence to achieve the customers goal of capturing unplanned consumer purchases. |
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Malto Bella Gourmet Malt Balls
C&H Packaging — A Subsidiary of Appleton
Gold Award Winner in Environmental Achievement
The Malto Bella Gourmet Malt Balls package represents an environmentally friendly solution through the use of non-volatile inks and adhesives yet provides superior graphics and bond strengths to give our customer the shelf appeal and package functionality they demand. This solution provides stunning graphics through the use of water-based inks, adhesive eliminating odors and retained solvents while using more renewable resources. |
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New York Style Lightly Salted Organic Pita Chips
Genpak LP
Gold Award Winner in Printing Achievement
The use of Opaltone has created an image that jumps off the shelf and at the same time is cost effective. The use of matte polypropylene has created the natural organic look for the consumer and has satisfied the marketing needs. This is indeed a win-win package for marketing and purchasing.
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Dale and Thomas™ Gourmet Popcorn Showpack™ Bag
Printpack Inc.
Silver Award Winner in Packaging Excellence
The Dale and Thomas™ Gourmet Popcorn Showpack™ Bag is the only snack food application in North America that utilizes a true flat bottom pre-made bag. The new format replaces paper sacks in their retail stores. The natural look and feel of the substrate’s matte finish and its enhanced graphic appeal provide brand building potential and integrate nicely to promote the product’s premium quality. Consumers benefit from the bag’s convenient press-to-close reseal feature and its improved product protection. |
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Dual Logo Snickers Bar
Bemis Flexible Packaging-Milprint Division
Silver Award Winner in Technical Innovation
What makes the Snickers dual logo bar wrapper so unique is that the UPC is printed in the transverse direction (TD) and there is print copy located in the eyetrack. This enables the consumer to view print copy from every angle. These developments resulted in a package which met the brand’s needs but did not compromise UPC integrity or packaging line speed. The ability to increase branding “real estate” on a package will be significant to brand managers across the industry. |
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John Soules Foods
Sonoco Flexible Packaging
Silver Award Winner in Printing Achievement
Rotogravure printing offered the opportunity to present the absolute best shelf appeal for retail sales. It “pops” quoting from the people at JSF; it’s the pop that sells. It’s really a marriage of “Beauty & the Beast,” the presentation of the pictorials on the package provide the “beauty” and the fine family quality of the John Soules Foods products the “beast.” The presentation was so vivid it just stands out on the displays, it makes shoppers take notice and try the product, and the product is excellent. |
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Keebler Gripz, 0.9 oz
Bemis Flexible Packaging — Milprint Division
Silver Award Winner in Packaging Excellence
The Keebler Gripz package offers consumers the newest in value-added easy-opening features. This package targeted for on-the-go consumers, uses advanced laser scoring technology in a specific shape to direct the tear and limit the opening to the top corner of the package. The laser technology enables packaging manufacturers to offer consumers a consistent opening package without negative impact on the multi-layered flexible package’s barrier and physical characteristics. Laser scoring can be used on thin flexible packages in unlimited applications, shapes and sizes. |
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Margaritaville-Mango Tequila Chicken Wings/Orange Peel Wings
American Packaging Corporation
Silver Award Winner in Printing Achievement
This reverse printed design/package utilizes DuPont FAST digital flexographic plates to significantly improve graphic reproduction. This technology provides increased image sharpness, brighter colors, higher ink densities, a smoother vignette and cleaner text. The enhanced graphics combined with superior design reproduction increased retail shelf presence to capture the consumer’s attention at the point of purchase. |
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Maxwell House Café Collection Hazelnut
16 Pod Package
Alcan Packaging
Silver Award Winner in Packaging Excellence
The Maxwell House Café Collection Hazelnut 16 Pod Package incorporates custom built proprietary in-house sealant film and top quality rotogravure graphics on two panels to make the Maxwell House brand stand out in the coffee category. The package offers excellent resistance to bursting and protects the foil ply. Rigorous hermetic seal testing is performed on the packaging to ensure freshness. The package possesses proprietary laser scoring at the zipper line to allow easy opening. A zipper is provided for convenient re-close. Consumer friendliness, robustness and aesthetic appeal describe this package. |
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McCormick® Finishing Sauce
Ampac Flexibles, A Division of Ampac Packaging
Silver Award Winner in Technical Innovation
The McCormick® Finishing Sauce line is thought to be the first such U.S. product to be marketed in a retort pouch. In order for the stand-up pouches to be both retortable and microwaveable, Ampac Flexibles had to develop a structure without a foil layer that could also withstand the temperature of the retort (250 degrees Fahrenheit). An additional heat-sealed, “cool grips” feature enables easy handling after microwaving (45 seconds from shelf to table). |
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Old Dutch Restaurante Premium Tortilla Chips
Genpak LP
Silver Award Winner in Technical Innovation
The die cut window rollstock addresses both manufacturing and consumer issues that are commonly present with premade bags. The packer is able to increase their outputs through automation and at the same time produce a much improved package. The die cut rollstock delivers better package stability. The package eliminates the issues of product infestation, short shelf life, and the lack of product freshness that can be present with the premade bag. Improvements in the package reduced the overall cost. |
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Perdue Popcorn Chicken
Nordenia USA
Silver Award Winner in Printing Achievement
In response to consumer demand for convenience, Perdue took the lead in their market segment when they moved to the hooded stand-up pouch. This added feature gives the consumer a simple means of package tampering detection and boost confidence in product safety. The slider offered easier reclosure and better product protection from freezer burn. Rotogravure print further enhances the graphics and adds to the shelf appeal of the product. |
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Smucker’s Uncrustables Grilled Cheese,
3.5 oz
The Robinette Company
Silver Award Winner in Packaging Excellence
The Smucker’s Uncrustables sandwich wrap has eliminated moisture retention by using a lightweight paper substrate. The spot adhesive that is applied during the printing process is heat sealed on existing poly-packaging equipment. This package has eliminated a serious problem for our customer at no additional cost. This project has been a win-win for everyone involved. |
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Toughened Flow-Through Boil-in-Bag Package
Pliant Corporation™
Silver Award Winner in Technical Innovation
An innovative combination of materials is used to upgrade an existing perforated film for boil-in-bag applications. The package is a perforated bag containing the product to be boiled. Previously, the perforated bags suffered from tears and punctures that would allow the product to leak out of the bag prior to boiling. This innovation uses coextruded films to deliver a heat resistant surface, a toughened core, and a sealant layer that will survive the boiling process. |
