This year’s UK Packaging Awards Design Team of the Year citation went to four in-house designers at Essentra Packaging, a leading supplier to the tobacco industry.

Essentra Packaging also was a finalist this year for Packaging Company of the Year.
“Typical applications include security print designs, narrow tear tape opening devices and larger package labels”, Essentra said. “The end-product design space is unusual in that the workable area is often of an extremely small size, with tape widths usually at 3-5mm.   With low tolerances this requires an extremely precise level of detail and creativity to produce an eye-catching design within the limited amount of space.”