EAFA declares winners of the Alufoil Trophy 2017

The European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) once again presents the Alufoil Trophy 2017 with five major categories includes Consumer Convenience, Marketing + Design, Product Protection, Resource Efficiency and Technical Innovation. This year an award for Application Innovation has been added for the first time.

Constantia Flexibles, the manufacturer of flexible packaging and labels, won four Alufoil Trophies for innovative packaging.

The association’s Executive Director Guido Aufdemkamp commented on this year’s winners, “The different competition categories allow aluminium foil products made for a variety of industry sectors to demonstrate a wide range of innovations. It confirms the ‘strength in depth’ of the industry that so many excellent products were recognised again this year.”

The competition is open to products which are either made from aluminium foil or contain aluminium foil as part of a laminate, structure or packaging system, as well as aluminium closures.

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Guido Schmitz, Director of Packaging Design in Consumer Health, Bayer, commented: “We were impressed with packs which showed real technical advances to create better sustainability, improved quality, more convenient or flexible solutions.”

“Particularly, one or two winners offer the aluminium foil sector a real opportunity to jump into new market segments or enable customers to put their products in places they could not reach before.”