MPS today announced their recognition of three customers,
Doga Etiket, Pragati Pack, and Arca Etichette, all award winners at the recent
34th FINAT label awards competition in the marketing/end-uses group for labels
printed on MPS flexo presses. In addition, nine labels also printed on MPS
flexo presses received highly commended awards. The award ceremony was held
during the Finat Congress 2014 program in Monte Carlo, Monaco.
Turkish printer Doga Etiket was a winner in the cosmetics
category for their “Elsève Extraordinary Oil” label, printed using flexo and
screen printing in 5 colours plus hot gold foiling and a varnish. Indian printer Pragati Pack won the pharmaceutical
category for their “OrthoZen” label printed on a metallised substrate using
flexography and screen printing in 4 colours, which includes an opaque white
background. The winner of the booklets category was Italian printer Arca
Etichette for their “Pivetti Impasta & Vinci” label printed in four colour
process colours using flexography for the total label including the inside
pages.
The nine highly commended awards in the marketing/end-uses
group were presented to Pragati Pack (two awards), Doga Etiket (two awards),
Skanem Willich, Germark S.A. and Label Apeel. Uniflex, and Doga Etiket also
received highly commended awards in the printing processes group. All labels
were printed on MPS flexo presses.
MPS commercial director/co-founder Eric Hoendervangers
comments: “MPS is very proud of all the group winners and highly commended
awards. It is a recognition of our customer’s outstanding label design and an
honour for MPS that they were printed on our presses. We congratulate our
customers for these well-earned achievements.”
The total number of entries for this year’s competition was
241 with 49 companies from 25 countries submitting samples for the judges to
examine. The jury panel was led by acting chairman Mike Fairley with the
remaining panel of Rik Olthof from Cartils, a well-known Dutch design agency,
Bernard Plat, past president of the French label association UNFEA, Murat
Sipahioglu from Turkey, Steve Wood from the UK, and this year’s media judge
Bill Bruce.
