29-Jul-2010
Beirut-based Indevco Paper Containers, a division of the Indevco group, won the second place in the category of Corrugated Pre-Print E-Flute & Fine at the 2010 International Grand Prix Cyrel Awards held in Barcelona, Spain, in June.
The award ceremony was held as part of a trio of events held between April and June in Germany, Czech Republic and Spain to honour printing & packaging entries employing flexograpy, from Central & Northern Europe; Central & Eastern Europe; and Mediterranean and UK, respectively.
For the awards held in Barcelona, more than 750 entries, printed with DuPont Cyrel products, were submitted from Africa, France, Greece, Italy, Middle East, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and United Kingdom.
The flexo printing packages submitted to the jury were evaluated on criteria such as package design, substrate selection, quality and difficulty of reproduction and printing, and final printed package appearance and functionality. Submissions were placed in the following categories: Carrier Bags, Bags on Paper, Sacks, Tag & Label, Flexible Packaging, Folding Carton/Beverage Carton, Corrugated Pre-Print, Corrugated Post-Print B flute and Coarser, Corrugated Post-Print E flute and Finer as well as Best Conversion and Other Specialties.
The Grand Prix Cyrel Awards is held to promote the growth of flexography within the printing packaging industry. The International Flexo-Print-Pack Congress is a formal presentation of the awards to the winners of the printing competition. At the 8th Flexo-Print-Pack Congress, DuPont presented the results of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), comparing Flexo to Gravure in order to quantify the environmental performance of the two alternatives, additionally to comparing solvent processing to thermal processing.
The study, based on data collected from tradeshops and printers serving the flexible packaging and tag and label markets in North America and Europe during 2006-2007, was conducted in compliance with ISO 14040-44.
Comparing the results of flexographic printing versus rotogravure printing, flexography has a 43% lower environmental impact for greenhouse gas emissions and 31% lower use of non-renewable energy use on an area of printed product basis. To illustrate the inherent technology differences between flexographic and rotogravure printing, aligned models were developed based on printers only using plastic substrate. The average aligned plastic substrate flexography impact is 51% lower in GHG emissions and 48% lower in non-renewable energy consumption than the average aligned plastic substrate gravure impact.
A second study comparing thermal platemaking to solvent platemaking for flexo indicate that thermal imaging results in a reduction in non-renewable energy of approximately 60 percent and a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of approximately 51 percent.
DuPont Packaging Graphics, supplier of flexographic printing systems and a division of DuPont de Nemours and Company, is celebrating 35 years of ‘Advancing Flexography’, with the 8th Flexo-Print-Pack Congress held alongside the Grand Prix Cyrel Awards.
DuPont Packaging Graphics operates in the Middle East, mainly through its distributor Dynagraph in Kuwait, Lebanon and UAE.
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