TLMI Label Awards: The Industry Shines
In the international categories, Spain-based Germark, S.A. won five awards, all first place honors. Collotype Labels International Holdings Ltd., based in Australia, also took home five awards, including three first place finishes.
The Best of Show award went to Vaughan, Ontario-based ASL Group–All Stick Label Ltd. for its Dan Aykroyd Sauvignon Blanc flexo-printed wine label. This label won first place in the Wine & Spirits–Flexography/Letterpress Color Process–Prime category, and was printed stochastically to enhance print quality. It used a combination of holographic cold foil, UV flexo inks, gold hot stamping, matte/gloss varnish, and raised varnish silkscreen to produced the award-winner, and used materials supplied by Avery Dennison, Fasson Roll North America; Sun Chemical; Actega WIT; and Kurz.