DS Smith's Show Stopping Pack Wins Award

In 2005 DS Smith Packaging won 46 major awards, including five Worldstars.

In 2005 DS Smith Packaging won 46 major awards, including five Worldstars.

This year the UK corrugated packaging company has continued its run with DS Smith Sacks winning the best in show award, as well as other accolades at the EFTA Print Awards.

The show stopper was a pack, which the EFTA judges called a 'Marmite masterpiece'.

Standards of printing were high this year, with other comments from the judges such as 'immaculate registration', 'clean and brilliant minimum dot holding' and 'amongst the best flexographic printing I have had the privilege to see', added DS Smith.

As well as winning best in show, the quality of print on the Marmite Love Portions pack won the gold award in the narrow web process category, where DS Smith Sacks also took the silver and bronze awards.

The Marmite Pack is designed and manufactured by DS Smith Speciality Packaging at Belper and printed by DS Smith Sacks.

Helped by the customer's co-operation throughout the design and artwork stages, the two DS Smith sites were able to combine their different skills to give the best possible end result, said the company.

DS Smith Sacks, which is claimed to manufacture the largest portfolio of bags and sacks in the UK, completed a successful evening by being awarded gold for a Hi Peak Horsefeed bag, which also won the bronze best in show prize, as well as a silver in the narrow web line screen process section.

The EFTA Awards are focused on flexographic printing capabilities in which DS Smith Packaging has invested heavily.

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