Alcoa Packaging Receives GAA Award for its Shrink Sleeve Printing.RICHMOND, Va. -- Alcoa Packaging, a packaging and consumer business unit within Alcoa Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :AA), received another award for its printing of the Nestle 90 oz. Hot Chocolate Syrup Shrink Sleeve. Yesterday evening, at the Gravure Association of America's annual convention, Alcoa Packaging received a Golden Cylinder Award for exceptional gravure printing gravure printing Printing processes used for catalogs, magazines, newspaper supplements, cartons, floor and wall coverings, textiles, and plastics. The Bohemian Karel Klíc made photogravure a practical commercial process in 1878. . The GAA GAA Goals Against Average (Hockey) GAA Gaelic Athletic Association GAA Gravure Association of America (Rochester, NY) GAA German Agro Action GAA Global Aquaculture Alliance GAA Gay Activists Alliance conducts the annual awards competition to promote the gravure process and to provide peer recognition for technical achievement. Alcoa Packaging's entry was judged by a panel of experts in the gravure industry over a two-day period in which entries from various gravure industries were evaluated to determine the "Best of the Best." The Nestle 90 oz. Hot Chocolate Syrup shrink sleeve features 8 color, reverse gravure printing on a 50 micron PETG PETG Polyethylene Terephthalate Glycol PETG Performance Evaluation Task Group shrink label from Alcoa Packaging's Downingtown Packaging Plant in Downingtown, Pennsylvania Downingtown is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, 33 miles (53 km) west of Philadelphia. Downingtown has been in existence since the early 1700s and boasts a number of historic buildings and structures. . "This award denotes Alcoa's ability for exceeding the packaging industry's standards of gravure printing. The shrink sleeve label for the Nestle(R) package presented a challenge for our graphic consultants yet through a combination of innovative thinking and drawing upon the expertise of our employees, we were able to design a distinct, distinguished label for our customer," said John Kay A number of people have been called John Kay:
With Alcoa's experienced graphics consultation, the graphic elements utilizing black were separated into two cylinders in order to specifically control the color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour multiple areas. In order to be discreet about this separation, an in-depth review of the graphics was conducted so that the black trappings could be placed in areas that would be discreetly hidden. In addition to the separation of the black cylinders to provide rich chocolate images supported by a warm, flowing red velvet background, the gold banners that enhance the words "Hot Chocolate" have gradient vignettes that enhance the copy. The Alcoa Downingtown Packaging Plant was able to show its additional expertise in providing a smooth gradient transition of dark, to light, to dark. The overall effect is rich, decadent chocolate enhanced by a sumptuous red velvet background for a premium quality appearance. This is the second printing award that Alcoa Packaging has received for the Nestle 90 oz. Hot Chocolate Syrup shrink sleeve. It also achieved a Silver Award for Printing Excellence from the Flexible Packaging Association at the organization's annual meeting in March 2006. About Alcoa Packaging Alcoa Packaging, based in Richmond, Virginia Richmond IPA: [ɹɯʒmɐnɖ] is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. , manufactures a variety of packaging materials including extrusion and adhesive laminated pouch materials, overwraps and linerstock, blister lidding foil, thermoformed trays, cable wrap, plastic shrink sleeve body labels, shrink film and laminated foil. These packaging materials serve the world's leading consumer products manufacturers within the pharmaceutical, medical, food & beverage, and industrial markets. About Alcoa Alcoa is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina, and is active in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoa's businesses as a single solution to customers. In addition to aluminum products and components, Alcoa also markets consumer brands including Reynolds Wrap(R) aluminum foil Noun 1. aluminum foil - foil made of aluminum aluminium foil, tin foil foil - a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil" , Alcoa(R) wheels, and Baco(R) household wraps. Among its other businesses are vinyl siding Wikipedia is not the place for advertisement or self-advertising. Vinyl siding, first introduced to the exterior cladding market in the late 1950s, is an alternative to aluminum siding, fiber cement siding, and timber siding. , closures, precision castings, and electrical distribution systems for cars and trucks. The company has 129,000 employees in 42 countries and has been named one of the top three most sustainable corporations in the world at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. www.alcoa.com |
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