After the success of the 1st edition held in Dusseldorf in 2016, the 2nd edition of the FTA Europe Diamond Awards took place in Milan at the Hotel Barceló on the evening of Wednesday 30th May during the period of the Print4All Fair. Over 240 participants from across the European flexographic community attended the ceremony to celebrate the best of the European flexo printing industry.
For the 2018’s edition, 14 categories were awarded, plus the Best in Flexo (the best sample among all the categories). These are the winning companies and their rankings listed per category:
FLEXO PRINT ON PAPER AND LABELS, UV INK – NARROW WEB
Diamond 1st Cartotecnica Postumia (Italy)
Diamond 2nd Reflex Newcastle (UK)
Diamond 3rd MCC Scotland (UK)
FLEXO PRINT ON PAPER – MEDIUM WEB
Diamond 1st DS Smith Belper (UK)
Diamond 2nd Roberts Mart & Co Ltd (UK)
Diamond 3rd Industrial Bolsera, S.L. (Spain)
FLEXO PRINT ON PAPER – WIDE WEB
Diamond 1st Smurfit Kappa CRP Pre Print (UK)
Diamond 2nd IPI (Italy)
Diamond 3rd Lysipack (France)
FLEXO PRINT ON PAPER – SUPER WIDE WEB, PRE-PRINT
Diamond 1st DS Smith Packaging Deutschland (UK)
Diamond 2nd Packaging Technologies Inc. (UK)
Diamond 3rd DS Smith Packaging Velin (France)
FLEXO PRINT ON FILM AND LABELS, UV INK – NARROW WEB
Diamond 1st Saicaflex (Bolfor) (Spain)
Diamond 2nd Gráficas Varias (Spain)
Diamond 3rd Grupo Consist (Spain)
FLEXO PRINT ON FILM – MEDIUM WEB
Diamond 1st CJSC Uniflex (UK)
Diamond 2nd Tech It Packaging (Italy)
Diamond 3rd Bastin-Pack N.V. (Benelux)
FLEXO PRINT ON FILM – LAMINATED
Diamond 1st CJSC Uniflex (UK)
Diamond 2nd Amcor Cumbria (UK)
Diamond 3rd A. Hatzopoulos (France)
FLEXO PRINT ON FILM – WIDE WEB
Diamond 1st Wipak Ibérica (Spain)
Diamond 2nd Grupo Consist (Spain)
Diamond 3rd Gamma Pack (Italy)
CORRUGATED POST PRINT – COATED
Diamond 1st Smurfit Kappa Burgos (Spain)
Diamond 2nd DS Smith Burscough (UK)
Diamond 3rd Chespa (UK)
CORRUGATED POST PRINT – UNCOATED
Diamond 1st Viallon Emballage (France)
Diamond 2nd DS Smith Livingston (UK)
Diamond 3rd Scatolificio TS (Italy)
CREATIVE USE OF FLEXO
Diamond 1st LC Packaging (Benelux)
Diamond 2nd IDEA (Italy)
Diamond 3rd Multi-Color Italia (Italy)
INNOVATION – PRINTER
Diamond 1st Sleever International (France)
Diamond 2nd Nextlabel (France)
Diamond 3rd Sac Emballages (France)
FLEXO PRINT ON ALUMINIUM
Diamond 1st Lysipack (France)
Diamond 2nd Flexográfica Del Mediterráneo (Spain)
Diamond 3rd Lysipack (France)
INTERNATIONAL
Diamond 1st Transcontinental Robbie (US)
Diamond 2nd Prakolar (Brazil)
Diamond 3rd Plasc (Brazil)
Diamond 3rd Visual Communication Technologies, Inc. (US)
BEST IN SHOW
Wipak Ibérica (Spain)
