Converting Magazine Names 2009 Innovator Award Winners
Recognizes converting and package printing companies that are "doing well by doing good"
Mark Spaulding, Editor in Chief, Converting Magazine -- Graphic Arts Online, November 12, 2009
11/12/2009 - Oak Brook, Ill. - Converting Magazine announces its 2009 Converting Innovator Awards, which recognize converting and package-printing companies that are "doing well by doing good" for their customers, their communities and the world at large. The winners represent different aspects of the program's concept and were chosen by the editorial staff and announced in Converting's November 2009 issue.
Kagulu, Ugandan citizens with thank-you banner for Associated Labels
The 2009 Converting Innovators are:
Sustainability: Next Generation Films (Lexington , OH)-From product concept to manufacturing to end-use to recycling, Next Generation Films is out to change the "anti-plastics" mindset of many environmentalists. The company incorporates high-tech source reduction in its packaging-film structures, maintains a zero net-waste operation and is establishing a breakthrough, wind-powered recycling center.
Community Service: Associated Labels (Vancouver, BC, Canada)-Corporate charitable giving, especially by smaller family-owned companies, typically takes place close to home. Associated Labels is no stranger to that role, having printed promotional labels for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police for years. However, its far-flung charity work on a year-long, village water-well project in Kagulu, Uganda, is a standout. Not only do village residents now have access to clean, safe drinking water, but the well made possible a new mud-brick factory which supplies materials for local home construction.
The 2010 awards program will be selected next fall and published in the November 2010 edition of Converting Magazine.
