Packaging of the year 2007
Syba – Czech Packaging Association established in Prague has announced 13th annual volume of Obal roku competition for this year.
This national packaging competition is serving for highlighting of materials, technologies and design that are offered in Czech Republic. Exhibits awarded by Czech Expert Commission are usually giving modern trend and are fulfilling highest technical requirements for packaging. These awarded exhibits help simultaneously to industrial segment and publics with orientation in wide market part.
49 of 89 exhibits, which were involved, succeeded in this year’s annual volume.
Year 2007 was written into history of competition by a number of primacies. It had record number of exhibits this year, whereby fell 10 years old record, which counted 77 applications. The highest number of awarded exhibits matched duly with big attendance. Mentioned numbers confirm no small attention, which the competition gets in Czech Republic. National competitions of other advanced countries with highest rivalry on packaging market have relatively similar results (e.g.. Germany - Verpackungspreis 2006: 330 exhibits, England - Starpack 2007: 352 exhibits).
ORPA Papir a.s. did not stay behind. It applied for competition gift paper packaging for wine bottle, which was developed and manufactured in cooperation with Karel Friedrich for particular customer, Vinne sklepy Kutna Hora s.r.o.
Wines from vineyards of Kutna Hora region is not as famous as wines from other wine regions of Czech Republic, but these products are firs-rate wines with royal tradition. Gift solid paper packaging with its design accentuates tradition, brings feeling of firmness and calls up connection to royal majesty. Anyhow is the bastion key point of castle’s defense can chosen design of package, which is based on solid corpus made from spiral wounded core, protects sufficiently wine in glass bottle.
Main advantages of packaging are variability of its use for different bottle sizes with simultaneous preservation of package’s shape and mechanical stability ensuring reliable protection of bottle with wine. News is way how is package opened. Package is opened by moving of paper doors along girth with usage of so called “cam effect”.
Originality of package can accentuate through possibility of printing special labels for different kinds of wines. Emphasis with competitive exhibit is on decent graphic art of label with reminiscence to historical heritage and genius loci of Kutna Hora town.
Packaging is made of full-recyclable materials that are environmental friendly. It is designed like cylindrical shaped spiral wounded body made a mock up of fine wavy cardboard in natural colour. Movable paper door of package is labeled; label gives information about packed content. Label is coloured in fine shade of beige and light brown colour that are in harmonization with body. Stability and breaking protection of packed bottle is ensured by usage of internal cardboard circle shaped fixation pads.
Congratulation to workers of Hostacov site headed by its chief Jiri Blabolil on reached success!
Awarded price will Mr. Blabolil take up at Obalovy galavecer on 15th November 2007 in Prague.
