LABELEXPO EUROPE BREAKS RECORDS
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(L-R) Mike Fairley, Lifetime Achievement award winner Tomas Rink and Dean Scarborough, CEO Avery Dennison<br />
Industry celebrates<br />
Award winners<br />
THE LABEL INDUSTRY GLOBAL AWARDS 2013 reached<br />
their tenth anniversary at Labelexpo, celebrating a range of<br />
outstanding industry achievements. Andy Thomas reports<br />
The Label Industry Global Awards are held every year to celebrate<br />
the achievements of the companies and individuals who have been<br />
instrumental in pushing this vibrant industry forward.<br />
The judging panel consists of the editors of the three leading<br />
industry magazines: this writer for Labels & Labeling; Steve Katz<br />
for Labels & Narrow Web, and Wolfgang Klos-Geiger for<br />
Etiketten and NarrowWebTech. Joining them were Kurt<br />
Walker, president of FINAT, and TLMI president Frank<br />
Sablone, with Mike Fairley in the chair.<br />
As previously announced, Ritrama’s Tomas Rink received the 2013<br />
R. Stanton Avery Lifetime Achievement Award, sponsored by Avery<br />
Dennison and reflecting the values and vision of industry pioneer Stan<br />
Avery.<br />
Tomas Rink joins an illustrious rota of winners including most<br />
recently RotoMetric’s Steve Lee and Helmut Schreiner. Tomas joined<br />
his father’s business when it had no more than 15 employees and built<br />
it into a global pressure-sensitive lamination business. There will be a<br />
full appreciation of his remarkable career in the 2014 L&L Yearbook.<br />
Be sure as well to check out Mike Fairley’s excellent video interview<br />
The three other award winners were announced during the<br />
ceremony, held on the first night of Labelexpo Europe and attracting<br />
600 guests.<br />
Peter Overbeek, managing director of Dutch converter Eshuis<br />
picked up the European Converter of the Year award, sponsored by<br />
Flint Group. The judges were impressed by how Eshuis played the<br />
lead role in co-ordinating the label printing segment of Coca-Cola’s<br />
highly successful ‘Share a Coke’ marketing campaign. Overbeek<br />
and his team brought together 18 European conventional and digital<br />
label converters and co-ordinated a complex workflow from design<br />
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