CONVERTING Magazine Names 2009 Innovator Award Winners.Companies Recognized for Environmental, Charitable Work; Details at www.convertingmagazine.com OAK BROOK, Ill. -- CONVERTING Magazine (www.convertingmagazine.com) announces 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 innovators people who will try new things. early innovators important figures in the farming or client community because they are the leaders in the introduction of new techniques and management systems. are: Sustainability: Next Generation Films (Lexington, OH)--From product concept to manufacturing to end-use to recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. , Next Generation Films is out to change the "anti-plastics" mindset mind·set or mind-set n. 1. A fixed mental attitude or disposition that predetermines a person's responses to and interpretations of situations. 2. An inclination or a habit. 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 Royal Canadian Mounted Police, constabulary organized (1873) as the Northwest Mounted Police to bring law and order to the Canadian west. In 1920 the name was changed to the present title. 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 drinking water supply of water available to animals for drinking supplied via nipples, in troughs, dams, ponds and larger natural water sources; an insufficient supply leads to dehydration; it can be the source of infection, e.g. leptospirosis, salmonellosis, or of poisoning, e.g. , but the well made possible a new mud-brick factory which supplies materials for local home construction. About CONVERTING Magazine For 26 years, CONVERTING has been the industry's authoritative print and electronic voice serving the business and technical information needs of companies that print and convert paper, film, and foil into value-added packaging and other products. CONVERTING is published by Reed Business Information-US, which offers business professionals in the media, manufacturing, electronics, construction and retail industries more than 80 market-leading business-to-business publications, 55 Webzines and portals, custom publishing, directories, research and direct-marketing lists. For more information, visit www.convertingmagazine.com or call 630-288-8835. |
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