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Istragrafika won the CROPAK award for the best technical design for the limited series of Ronhill Anniversary Edition that was launched last year to mark the 30th anniversary of Ronhill brand. Istragrafika was also awarded in the prototype design category for the Black&Wine gift box.

Rovinj, May 10, 2010 – At the seventh packaging festival for the Croatian market FEST.A CROPAK 2010, that has just finished, Istragrafika, Croatian leading manufacturer and exporter of commercial cardboard packaging, won the CROPAK award for the best technical design for the limited series of Ronhill Anniversary Edition, that was launched last year to mark Ronhill’s 30th anniversary. Istragrafika was also awarded in the prototype design category for the Black&Wine gift box.

This year’s FEST.A CROPAK gathered about 160 businessmen and packaging users and manufacturers from Croatia and the region. Besides the expert lectures, the festival represented a great opportunity for the exchange of professional experience and for getting acquainted with the latest trends in the graphic industry in the country and worldwide.

With this contest CROPAK intends to promote, emphasize and award the packaging as a means of protection and identification of the product, its promotion and marketing. The participants were Croatian and foreign producers, traders, manufacturers and printers of the packaging, labels and displays, professional designers, advertising agencies as well as Croatian manufacturers of the machinery, devices and the equipment for packaging waste management. There were 45 entries for this contest for the best packaging on the Croatian market totaling more than 110 products.

CROPAK prizes were awarded in seven categories - Production Quality of Packaging, Packaging of Croatian Product/Series, Packaging of Foreign Product/Series, Graphic Design with distinctive Croatian visual identity, Graphic design of packaging, display, label and tags of Croatian product, Prototype and EKO CROPAK – Packaging. Except the national category there was a special award for the best packaging on the regional market REGPAK 2010 (markets of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia and Serbia). Winners have the opportunity to compete in the WorldStar, the pre-eminent international award for the best packaging in the world.

FEST.A CROPAK 2010 was organized by the Institute of Packaging and Graphic Arts, company Tectus and Ambalaža and REGprint trade journals, while Istragrafika took part as the official partner of the festival.