Jim DeFife wins Global Achievement Award

Jim DeFife, vice president of Pressure level-Sensitive Materials -- Multi-Colour Corporation wins the Global Accomplishment Award.

Jim DeFife, vice president of Pressure level-Sensitive Materials – Multi-Color Corporation, won the prestigious R. Stanton Avery Global Achievement Award 2022 at the 16th edition of the annual Characterization Industry Global Awards on 5 June 2022 during the FINAT European Characterization Forum in Copenhagen. The panel of international judges considered entries for a full of vi honour categories and drew up a shortlist.

Sponsored by Avery Dennison, the R. Stanton Avery Global Accomplishment Award recognizes innovative ideas that have helped transform and progress the label manufacture across the world. Bestowed in retentiveness of Stan Avery'due south pioneering spirit and values, the award builds on the previously named R. Stanton Avery Pioneer Laurels to reverberate the global nature of the industry and recognize the collective contributions.

DeFife has been a driving force in the global label industry for nigh 40 years, with a focus throughout his career on the development of technical solutions that have revolutionized the pressure-sensitive marketplace – firstly with Avery Dennison and then, for the by 17 years, with Spear and Multi-Color. During his 20 years with Avery Dennison, he led the company'southward specialty films division, coming up with new filmic constructions. He subsequently led a global initiative for materials down-gauging at Spear, C-Flex and Multi-Color.

DeFife has also been a long-term pioneer in thin motion-picture show technology, calculation broad web coating into Spear's facilities, including major work with the unabridged supply chain incorporating all the picture show/paper, adhesive and coating suppliers. He also developed the kickoff plastic bottle recyclable PS label recognized by the Apr.

The confirmed finalists for the five other categories include Esko, Lenze, Lintec Europe (UK), Flash Stanzwerkzeuge GmbH & Co KG in the Accolade for Innovation (for companies with more than than 300 employees) category sponsored past Xeikon. The finalists for the Honour for Innovation (for companies with upward to 300 employees) sponsored by Flint Group include GEW (EC), GMG GmbH & Co KG, Hybrid Software, Lake Image Systems, and Synia/Wizzcom.

The finalists for the Ascension Star Award sponsored past the Characterization University and Avery Dennison for 2022 include Katie Davis, Bostik, Jesse Freitas, StickerGiant, Ahmed Lotfi Mansour, Bayan for Printing & Packaging, Robert Rae, GEW (EC), and Pawandeep Sahni, Weldon Celloplast.

The finalists for Ecology and Sustainability Laurels include Avery Dennison, Sleever International, and Valmet. The finalists of the European Converter of the Year Accolade will be announced in July.

Mike Fairley, founder of the Characterization Academy and chair of the judges, said, "As the highest accolade within the label and package printing industry, the quality of entries to the Label Industry Global Awards is always extremely high, and so drawing up the finalists is non piece of cake. However, the judging panel agreed that DeFife was the stand-out choice for this yr's R. Stanton Avery Global Achievement Award, with multiple recommendations from around the world.

"Beyond his technical ability, what likewise really stood out for the states was his ability to gain and retain the respect of the industry throughout his career – from suppliers, his peers, and his customers. What meliorate moment to celebrate his achievements from an incredible 40-year label career than the 40th anniversary year of Labelexpo. Nosotros expect forrard to honoring him and all our winners in person at a very special awards ceremony in Brussels in September, during which we volition also be celebrating Labelexpo's important milestone."

The other members of the judging panel for this year's awards were James Quirk, grouping managing editor, Labels & Labeling; Chris Ellison, president, FINAT; Craig Moreland, by chairman, TLMI; Steve Katz, editor, Label & Narrow Web; and Jean Poncet, editor-in-chief, MP Medias.

All winners and official presentations of the prizes volition be announced during the first evening of Labelexpo Europe 2022 on 24 September 2019, at a 1,000 chapters gala issue hosted at Brussels Expo. The event will likewise celebrate the 40th anniversary edition of Labelexpo. Tickets are available at the awards website.

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