The L9 announce the 2016 World Label Awards Category & Honourable Mention Winners
The Best of the Best awards will be announced during Labelexpo Europe in Brussels in September
The Hague, March 2017. The L9 are pleased to announce the results of the 2016 L9 World Label Awards (WLA) competition judged by an international jury the day before Labelexpo Americas in Chicago in September 2016. The L9 is an alliance of global label associations for the purposes of formulating policies and gathering strategic information in connection with global matters affecting the worldwide label industry.
The current class structure includes 22 classes covering all the principal printing processes and market applications. The results are listed in class order with the Winners announced first followed by the Honourable Mention (HM) awards.
Each year all the L9 label associations are invited to submit entries for the World Label Awards. This ensures that the competition has a truly international flavour. During the past year the Australian label association LATMA and the Australian Flexographic Association merged to form a new association FPLMA (Flexible Packaging & Label Manufacturers Association). The associations taking part in this year’s competition include FINAT (Europe), TLMI (USA), JFLP (Japan), FPLMA (Australia), SALMA (New Zealand) and PEIAC (China).
These prestigious awards are valued throughout the worldwide label fraternity signalling that the label converter has achieved real excellence in label production. The awards are not only seen as a boost for the production personnel connected with producing the label but also as a valuable marketing tool and are often referred to as being the technical Oscars of the global label industry. The jury scrutinises every label for its technical achievement and aesthetic appeal along with converting and finishing technology. “We are the most critical assessors of the quality of a label, often far in excess of the printers own QC department. We look for and expect a high standard of printing at this level and are not often disappointed” comments Tony White, chairman of the judging panel.
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