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DuPont received the Global Label Industry Award for Continuous Innovation during the recent LabelExpo in Chicago. The award recognizes innovation and rewards a company that is instrumental in continuously developing new technologies and systems that are benefiting the label industry.

Awards Chairman Mike Fairley said "DuPont has served as one of the prime movers of the label industry away from a craft-based industry to a science-based industry over many years. The quality and reproducibility of the flexographic label process today owes much to their creativity and innovation."

"DuPont is a science company and we are thrilled to be recognized by the label industry for our contributions to this important industry. We look forward to continuing to bring innovative, science-based solutions to the label industry and the printing industries as a whole," said Lisa DiGate, Global Business Director, DuPont Packaging Graphics.

The official Awards announcement described DuPont contributions this way: In the printing and graphics field, innovation has been continuous and on many fronts, whether design, pre-press, or the pressroom, using film or digital. Examples of products which have been of major benefit to the label industry include, the ongoing evolution of Cyrel photopolymer plates, the Cyrel Digital Imager technology, color management solutions, digital proofing and workflow - all of which enable flexographic printers to compete head to head with the offset and gravure processes. Most recently, DuPont has introduced the environmentally friendly FAST thermal dry flexographic plate, which has a complete absence of solvents or drying requirements.