2019 Winners

AMSOIL® Easy Pack

AMSOIL® Easy Packs are a revolutionary solution to a longstanding problem. From DIYers to professional mechanics, rigid bottles make dispensing fluids difficult in the confined spaces of modern vehicles, resulting in wasted product, spillage, and a poor user experience. The flexibility of the AMSOIL® Easy Pack, integrated handle, and ergonomic design provide confidence and ease-ofuse when maneuvering in tight spaces. No need for specialty tools, funnels, pumps, etc.

Manufacturer: AMSOIL INC.

End-User/Customer: Willow® Pump

Plant: Superior, WI

Designer/Design Firm:AMSOIL INC.

Bar-Asept

Liqui-Box Bar-Asept high barrier adhesive laminates are used for aseptic sauce packaging and other food products. These new adhesive laminates use high-performance sealants and high barrier coextrusion layers that have excellent sealability (ability to seal through food particulates). They have excellent oxygen barrier, superior robustness, and excellent processing characteristics. The laminates are designed to work with and without a fitment attached, depending on customer requirements, to significantly reduce field leaker rates with outstanding barrier performance.

Manufacturer: Liqui-Box Corporation

End-User/Customer: Aseptic FFS Pouch Customers

Plant: Germantown, WI

Key Suppliers:Sonoco

Before Brands SpoonfulOne Strawberry Puffs

Before Brands SpoonfulOne Strawberry Puffs Gusset Pouches are an excellent example of how converting to flexible packaging creates exceptional brand management. The new, improved packaging creates a colorful, exciting gusset pouch with bold colors and a matte finish to emphasize the many features of their product. Before Brands SpoonfulOne Strawberry Puffs is a gusset pouch that contains seven snack packs.

Manufacturer: CL&D Graphics, Inc.

End-User/Customer: Snacks for Toddlers/Before Brands

Plant: Oconomowoc, WI

Designer/Design Firm:Before Brands, Inc.

Key Suppliers:Film Suppliers: Base Film, Pilcher, 50ga PVDC-PET; Laminate, Charter NEX, 3MIL White LLDPE; Printing Press Supplier: the 50ga PVDC-PET film was printed on CL&D’s 10 station in line PCMC flexo press utilizing solvent-base ink by Sun Chemical; Adhesive Supplier: Sun Chemical

ConAgra Slim Jim Premium Smoked Sticks

Leveraging innovative printing technology, Bemis developed this leather print package for Slim Jim. The simulated leather texture and look is an emerging packaging technology, primarily used in printing and graphics to deliver additional cues of authenticity and quality. This printing innovation enabled brand extension and premiumization for Slim Jim through a visually and texturally differentiated experience from traditional meat stick offerings, while still maintaining critical brand recognition.

Manufacturer: Bemic Company, Inc.

End-User/Customer: ConAgra

Plant: Oshkosh, WI

Dole Crafted Smoothies

The Dole Crafted Smoothies Blend is a series of three SKUs launched in early 2018. This PE/ink/waterbased adhesive/PE pouch provides all the required functional and aesthetic properties while utilizing 100% recyclable films. Emerald developed a recyclable alternative, moving the original PET/PE structure to a PE/PE structure. The nonrecyclable laminated PET web was replaced by recyclable polyethylene (PE), making it a PE/PE recyclable pouch. It is printed 10 colors on a Windmoeller & Hoelscher Miraflex printing press for dynamic graphics and shelf appeal in the supermarket. The PE/PE pouch offers the same convenience and performance of multi-material pouches with the added benefit of being recyclable where PE bag and film recovery efforts currently exist.

Manufacturer: Emerald Packaging, Inc.

End-User/Customer: Dole Packaged Frozen

Plant: Union City, CA

Designer/Design Firm:Dana Saputo Design

Key Suppliers:TCommex Corp., 1 mil PE (for clarity and gloss); Commex Corp., 2 mil PE Sealant for rigidity; CAI Inc., solvent based inks; Ashland Inc., waterbased adhesives; Windmoeller & Hoelscher Corp., 10 color Miraflex printing press

FLEXMAX™ Packaging for Floor Care Products from Midlab®

Printpack’s FLEXMAX™ container is a flat-folding, dual-wall 2.5 gallon flexible pouch with the cold temperature drop-impact strength necessary for the containment of large volume liquids. Fitted with a 38mm HDPE spout for easy pouring and reclosure, FLEXMAX™ combines high stiffness, toughness, and high and low temperature resistance properties in its proprietary-formulated, dual-wall pouching/bagging films. Aggressive chemical and environmental stress-crack resistance completes the package

Manufacturer: Printpack

End-User/Customer: Midlab®

Plant: Grand Prairie, TX

Green Giant Veggie Spirals™ PrimaPak® Package

The Green Giant Veggie Spirals™ PrimaPak® package is a flexible, stackable, resealable package produced from a single roll of film on modified Ilapak vertical form-fill-seal machinery. The microwaveable packaging is designed with vent holes, as well as a peel reseal lid, for easy opening. The consumer has the option to microwave, blend additional ingredients, and serve directly out of the package, without the need for a bowl or serving dish.

Manufacturer: Sonoco Flexible Packaging

End-User/Customer: Grower’s Express/B&G Foods Inc.

Plant: Elk Grove Village, IL

Key Suppliers: Ilapak Vertical Form-Fill-Seal Line

JBS-Swift Printed Ovenable Meat Packaging (OvenRite®)

OvenRite® packaging is a fully printed ovenable film with high quality graphics for meat and seafood. The film is available in premade pouches or form/fill/seal rollstock. Products can go straight from refrigerator or freezer to the oven while producing a consistent final product with minimal preparation and cleanup. This technology self-vents steam for optimum browning but maintains tenderness and moisture for added flavor. Ovenable inks are used to replace removable labels found on prior cook-in offerings to deliver convenience.

Manufacturer: Bemis Company, Inc.

End-User/Customer: JBS Inc.

Plant: Oshkosh, WI

Key Suppliers: Bemis Company, Inc. and JBS Inc.

A Sensational Pouch

This promotional pouch was designed to introduce a new soft touch film in a flexible packaging application. Use of graphics and the linear tear PLALOC zipper were part of the effort to showcase St. Johns’ packaging capabilities to the market. In an effort to “grab” the customer’s attention on the crowded store shelf, the promotional pouch highlights the use of both the visual and tactile aspects of a flexible package. In addition, the use of a gold hot stamp, “Certification of Quality Guarantee” in a flexible application, truly sets this pouch apart in the market.

Manufacturer: St. Johns Packaging Ltd.

Plant: Greensboro, NC

Designer/Design Firm: Internal Graphics Team

Key Suppliers:Three ply lamination utilizing 70 Gauge Karess Luxe film from Nobelus, as the print web. Sun Chemical inks and Ashland solventless adhesives were used. Idemitsu’s linear tear Plaloc Press-to-Close zipper was applied. Design and plates were completed in-house at St. Johns Packaging, Greensboro, NC.

Sustainable Pouch with Easy-Lock (APLIX) Reclosable Feature

This promotional pouch was designed to showcase the internal pouch making capability at St. Johns Packaging with an all PE structure that addresses the consumer, retailer, and consumer product companies’ demands for more environmentally friendly packaging. The design of the package was developed internally, with the side panels of the pouch being utilized to showcase each of the companies involved with the help of a QR Code, allowing for quick access to that company’s website.

Manufacturer: St. Johns Packaging Ltd.

Plant: Greensboro, NC

Designer/Design Firm:Internal Graphics Team

Key Suppliers: Films were supplied by Charter NEX Films. The structure utilized two webs of their “Green Arrow” film grades which are designed for recycling as an ALL-PE flexible package. Sun Chemical inks and Ashland solventless adhesives were used. APLIX Easy-Lock closure feature was applied. Printed on W&H 10-Color CI Press. Design and plates all done in-house at St. Johns Packaging, Greensboro, NC.