CONVERTING magazine names 2009 Innovator Award winners

Companies recognized for environmental, charitable work

-- Packaging Digest, 11/12/2009 2:52:52 PM

CONVERTING Magazine has announced 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.

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.

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