04.21.23
Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) announced the winners of its 67th Annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition. The winning entries were recognized during the FPA Welcome Dinner & Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Ceremony held March 29, 2023, in conjunction with the 2023 FPA Annual Meeting at the Ritz-Carlton, Amelia Island, FL.
For this year’s competition, 86 package entries were submitted with a total of 323 entries (some packages were entered into multiple categories). Thirty packages were honored with 38 Achievement Awards.
Special thanks are given to the 2023 competition judging panel: Gary Borges, associate professor, University of Wisconsin – Stout; Charles Marshall, principal, Priority Metrics Group; and Jeff Peterson, president, Peterson Media Group.
Technical innovation and sustainability continue to be the focus of the competition. RESCUE! Outdoor Disposable Fly Traps, produced by Glenroy, Inc., received the FPA’s Highest Achievement Award, as well as Gold Award – Packaging Excellence, Gold Award – Technical Innovation and Silver Award – Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging.
“Sustainability is growing tremendously very fast. Post-consumer recycling is a trend that we saw,” noted Borges. “And we’re seeing an increase in paper structures that are either compostable paper or paper structures that we can send to our paper waste streams at home. So we're seeing all of these innovations taking place. It is pretty impressive.”
“It is pretty impressive the amount of platform growth that we're seeing taking place in the packaging, on the topic of sustainability,” added Borges. “What do we do? What is it going to look like five or 10 years from now? We're getting a good picture seeing some of these new structures on what it's starting to look like. And it's fun here, being at this stage, watching it.”
“One of the interesting categories is the extended use of flexible packaging because you really can see, hey, what are people doing that's brand new that really hasn't been done in the marketplace using flexible packaging versus paper cartons or rigid plastics,” Peterson observed.
“What the technology groups did in accomplishing those goals was just really amazing,” Marshall said. “And, in looking at packaging through the years, it has come a long way. The future is bright in the continued changes and modifications that are necessary to make flexible packaging continue to grow.”
For this year’s competition, 86 package entries were submitted with a total of 323 entries (some packages were entered into multiple categories). Thirty packages were honored with 38 Achievement Awards.
Special thanks are given to the 2023 competition judging panel: Gary Borges, associate professor, University of Wisconsin – Stout; Charles Marshall, principal, Priority Metrics Group; and Jeff Peterson, president, Peterson Media Group.
Technical innovation and sustainability continue to be the focus of the competition. RESCUE! Outdoor Disposable Fly Traps, produced by Glenroy, Inc., received the FPA’s Highest Achievement Award, as well as Gold Award – Packaging Excellence, Gold Award – Technical Innovation and Silver Award – Expanding the Use of Flexible Packaging.
“Sustainability is growing tremendously very fast. Post-consumer recycling is a trend that we saw,” noted Borges. “And we’re seeing an increase in paper structures that are either compostable paper or paper structures that we can send to our paper waste streams at home. So we're seeing all of these innovations taking place. It is pretty impressive.”
“It is pretty impressive the amount of platform growth that we're seeing taking place in the packaging, on the topic of sustainability,” added Borges. “What do we do? What is it going to look like five or 10 years from now? We're getting a good picture seeing some of these new structures on what it's starting to look like. And it's fun here, being at this stage, watching it.”
“One of the interesting categories is the extended use of flexible packaging because you really can see, hey, what are people doing that's brand new that really hasn't been done in the marketplace using flexible packaging versus paper cartons or rigid plastics,” Peterson observed.
“What the technology groups did in accomplishing those goals was just really amazing,” Marshall said. “And, in looking at packaging through the years, it has come a long way. The future is bright in the continued changes and modifications that are necessary to make flexible packaging continue to grow.”