The Bonfire Wines Standup Pouch and Hillshire Brands Heat Fresh Package are among the 22 packages selected from more than 110 entrants to be recognised for excellence, sustainability and innovation in flexible packaging.
The Bonfire Wines Standup Pouches garnered a gold award for Packaging Excellence and a silver award for Sustainability & Environmental Achievement.
The pouch’s flexible film structure includes an OPET exterior layer, metallized core and Liquiflex Advance inner layer for maximum printability, barrier, strength, stiffness and organoleptic properties.
The package’s signature shape solves the ‘sagging’ challenge common to liquid packaging. Compared to bottled wine, the Bonfire Wines Standup Pouches offer an 80% smaller carbon footprint over the package life cycle.
The Hillshire Brands Heat Fresh Package received a gold award for Technical Innovation. It solves a longtime dilemma for microwavable sandwiches: how to keep breads moist while heating the rest of the sandwich evenly and thoroughly, all in the original package.
The package controls moisture, heat and pressure during microwaving using a proprietary non-woven bottom web and anti-fog top web developed jointly by Bemis Curwood and Hillshire Brands.
“We are honoured to collaborate with innovative customers like Hillshire Brands and Bonfire Wines to bring breakthrough solutions to the packaging market,” said Derrick Sytsma, Bemis Curwood’s vice president of marketing.
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