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Placon wins three SPE awards

Placon won three packaging design awards at the annual SPE (Society of Plastics Engineers) conference. The winning package designs were the ORTHOFIX® Medical Tray, PACLOCK Bi-Fold Clamshell, and Placon’s HomeFresh® Entrée product line.

Placon SPE award winning packages
Placon SPE award winning packages

The ORTHOFIX® Medical Tray, (Gold Award Winner – Industrial Packaging Category), is a superb design that has features to suspend a set of medical device screws with HA coating that prevents abrasion or rubbing off the critical coating that needs to be on each screw for proper medical operating room usage. The high level of difficulty and precision make this package truly one-of-a-kind that meets a solution for the customer as a result.

The PACLOCK Bi-Fold Clamshell, (Silver Award Winner – Industrial Packaging Category), allows PACLOCK to have 100% more space to hold graphic and product information within the package. More product information allows the end customer to read and learn about the product prior to purchase, which will increase point of sale by having more information at the customer fingertips.

HomeFresh® Entrée, (Silver Award Winner – Food Packaging Category), which is part of Placon’s stock food product line, perfect for prepared meals and meal prep solutions. Designed to stack neatly, to avoid tipping over and causing a mess for the end user. It also features a leak resistant lid, vented or non-vented lid options and is microwavable. Simply microwave, wash and reuse. There is no better way to save food and make cleanup easier than with HomeFresh® Entrée containers.

“2019 has been a great year for Placon. Being able to highlight our design capabilities, combined with the innovation our team brings to the packaging industry is truly a pleasure to be a part of such a great group of people. By working with our customers to find packaging solutions we continue to move the needle forward within the packaging industry that results in creating simply, better, packaging for our customers and the end users.” said Dan Mohs, Placon’s Chairman and CEO.

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