Amcor Flexibles was the recipient of two awards at the Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA) Annual Achievement Awards held in Florida.
The FPA is a trade organisation for flexible packaging converters and suppliers. The Annual Achievement Awards honour packaging and converting organisations that demonstrate breakthrough technologies, printing techniques, package structures, environmental advantages and new end-uses.
Tom Cochran, vice president and general manager – Americas and Medical Europe, Amcor Flexibles Europe and Americas says, “For Amcor Flexibles to be recognised for our great packaging solutions is an honour.”
Cochran says, “Our customers continuously challenge us to develop packaging solutions that complement their new products, and we are proud to meet that challenge and grow together.”
Amcor Flexibles received the Gold Award in the ‘Packaging Excellence’ category for its Amcor PushPop portion control package, serving the snack food market.
Art Castro, vice president sales and marketing – Americas and Medical Europe, Amcor Flexibles Europe and Americas, “When a package and its contents can work together to create a memorable consumer experience, we have served our customers well."
The packaging material and package design of the PushPop combine to provide an easy open, convenient package. The Amcor PushPop package is protected by Amcor in some geographies through patent applications and registrations.
Amcor Flexibles received the Silver Award in the ‘Technical Innovation’ category for Amcor Dent Resistant – Compact Formpack serving the prescription and OTC blister pack markets. Castro says, “Our R&D efforts are focused on innovations that offer benefits throughout the supply chain.”
The newest Amcor product, the Formpack can be inserted without denting into an overpack designed for Child Resistance or Adherence/Compliance packaged medications. Improved forming properties allow a deep draw without fracturing and a 10-20 per cent decrease in individual cavity width/length. This results in up to a 10 per cent reduction in the overall package size.
The goal of the FPA Annual Achievement Awards is to showcase the diverse uses for flexible packaging, 127 entries were received this year, 25 packages were honoured with achievement awards.
