Packaging innovation award

CS Labels has announced that the flexible stand-up pouches it produces for Graze snacks has won the award for Innovation at the 2015 Digital Printer Awards.

Managing director Simon Smith says: “On behalf of the whole team, I’m really delighted to collect this award from Digital Printer. It is the second year we have won, but the first time we have won an award for our new flexible pouches product, which we launched earlier this year.

“We worked hard to push the boundaries of digital print yet again, and it has paid off. I have seen an unprecedented demand for the pouches in 2015 and this is set to continue into next year.”

The pouches printed for Graze is a fascinating story. Printing stand-up pouches digitally is traditionally known as being very challenging. Graze asked CS if they could do it. In the face of adversity and against the advice of experts, CS Labels believed that stand-up pouches could be digitally printed on a Xeikon press, and spent six to eight months testing and proofing the concept. They then launched a range of pouches on various substrates in February this year.