Five FTA Best of Show Winners Used Plates Produced By Esko CDI Imagers
Esko (www.esko.com) has announced that five of the six best of show winners at this year’s 2017 FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards used Esko CDI digital flexo imagers. In addition, more than 70% of all awards were submitted by companies who are customers of Esko CDIs and/or software.
The Excellence in Flexography Awards recognize exemplary package printing. Awards are judged over a three-day period by a group of flexographic industry experts. Categories in the Excellence in Flexography Awards include wide-web, mid-web, narrow-web, combined corrugated, preprinted linerboard, envelope, self-promotion and non-traditional flexography, and students. The 2017 Excellence in Flexography Awards honored 121 as being noteworthy flexographically printed pieces.
“It was exciting for Esko to, in some small way, celebrate in the tremendous achievements of our customers," Rory Marsoun, Esko VP, market development, Esko Americas, said. "For us, it is very gratifying to see so many Best of Show entries using plates prepared with our software and imaged on an Esko CDI for a wide variety of categories — from narrow- to wide-web format. Award results demonstrate that Esko flexo plate making solutions can be used successfully for virtually any application that requires high quality flexo.”
The five 2017 Best of Show entrants who used plates imaged from Esko CDIs included:
- The Tops Herb Seasoned Croutons/Italian Seasoned Croutons Wrapper, printed by Transcontinental Robbie. Plates were created by The ALC Group.
- The Terra Sweets Medley Wrapper, printed by Industrias de Plasticos S.A.
- The Cozy Sunday Morning Body Cream Label, printed by Smyth Companies, LLC
- The Berkley Jensen Ultra Laundry Detergent Carton, printed by Advance Packaging Corp. Plates were created by Printron.
- The Paralyzed Veterans of America Tropical Flowers Envelope, printed by MackayMitchell Envelope Company
“Esko wishes to congratulate all of the entries that contributed to make the 2017 FTA Excellence in Flexography Awards so successful," Mark Quinlan, president of Esko North America, said. "Esko is proud of the solutions we offer to our customers. But that is only one small piece — it takes a dedicated and knowledgeable staff to get the most out of any prepress and press software and equipment. We are proud to play a small part in their successes. We commend everyone’s efforts. Their clients have reason to be proud of the work they produced. In the year ahead, we hope that our customers find even more extraordinary ways to demonstrate the excellence of their work. We will be there to help them."
