Diamond Packaging Introduces its Music-Themed 2020 Corporate Calendar

Diamond Packaging's 2020 Calendar features cold foiling,
embossing, and debossing

Diamond Packaging today announced the debut of its 2020 corporate calendar, a popular promotional item given to customers and suppliers. The calendar showcases many of Diamond’s capabilities, including multi-color UV printing, cold foiling, UV gloss spot coating, multi-level embossing, debossing, and intricate die cutting.

The 2020 “Making Music” calendar, which was conceptualized, planned, and produced by the entire Diamond team, pays tribute to the electric guitar – an American icon. The inspiration was a Gretsch G5422TG Electromatic® Hollow Body guitar with Bigsby® vibrato tailpiece, gold hardware, pearl Hump Block inlays, and a walnut stain finish..

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Diamond Packaging Wins Five Awards in Gold Ink Awards Competition

Splintek's Ultra-Comfort Dental Guard packaging
features cold foil and UV gloss spot coating.

Diamond Packaging won five awards in Printing Impressions magazine’s 32nd annual Gold Ink Awards competition, the industry's most prestigious print competition. Winners were chosen from nearly 600 entries submitted in 47 different categories. Entries were judged on print quality, technical difficulty, and overall visual effect.

Diamond won Bronze Awards in the “Folding Cartons” and "Calendars" categories, respectively, for Splintek’s SleepRight Ultra-Comfort Dental Guard packaging, and for Diamond's 2019 corporate calendar.

Diamond won Pewter Awards in the "Folding Cartons" category for Inter Parfums’ Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid packaging, Parlux Fragrances' Tommy Bahama Island Life packaging, and Procter & Gamble’s Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional White packaging.

All of Diamond’s winning entries were designed utilizing recyclable paperboards and manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy, in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility.

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Diamond Packaging Wins Four Awards in 2019 Excellence Awards Competition

Inter Parfums' Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid folding carton
won three awards.

Diamond Packaging won four awards in the 33rd annual Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards, the industry's only competition recognizing the highest level of printing quality and technical achievement across the full range of packaging segments – labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons, shrink sleeves, corrugated packaging, and displays. Winners were chosen from hundreds of entries submitted in over 40 different categories. Entries were judged on print quality, functionality, and secondary converting and finishing attributes.

Diamond won three awards for Inter Parfums’ Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid packaging, including First Place in the “Folding Cartons – Offset” category, Second Place in the “Sustainability – Folding Cartons” category, and Third Place overall in Best of Show..

Diamond won First Place in the “Specialty – Technical Achievement” category for its 2019 corporate calendar, a popular promotional item given to customers and suppliers..

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Diamond Packaging Wins Four Awards in 2019 Premier Print Awards Competition

Diamond Packaging won four awards in the 2019 Premier Print Awards, the world’s most prestigious international print competition. Printing Industries of America (PIA) hosts the competition, which recognizes the creation and production of superior print communications. Entries were judged on color, registration, degree of difficulty, and the overall look and design that make an effective and graphically appealing piece.

Diamond won Awards of Recognition in the “Calendars” and “Embossing/Debossing" categories for its 2019 corporate calendar, a popular promotional item given to customers and suppliers.

Diamond won Certificates of Merit in the “Embossing/Debossing” and “Cartons, Containers, Boxes, and Totes” categories for Inter Parfums’ Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid packaging.

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Diamond Packaging Wins Seven Awards in 26th Annual FSEA Gold Leaf Awards Competition

P&G's Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional White
folding cartons won Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf Awards

Diamond Packaging won seven awards in the 26th Annual FSEA Gold Leaf Awards Competition, the industry's premier showcase for foil stamping, embossing, and other specialty effects. Awards were announced earlier this month at the 2019 Odyssey Expo in Atlanta, GA.

The competition celebrates the quality, added value, shelf presence, security, and brand recognition that specialty finishing processes lend to the printed sheet. Entries are judged by a panel of industry experts on several criteria including design, execution, and level of difficulty.

Diamond won Gold Leaf and Silver Leaf Awards for P&G's Crest 3D Whitestrips Professional White packaging, and for its 2019 corporate calendar.

Diamond won Silver Leaf awards for Inter Parfums' Anna Sui Fantasia Mermaid and Iovate's Hydoxycut Organic packaging.

Diamond won a Bronze Leaf award for Parlux Fragrances' Tommy Bahama Island Life packaging.

All of Diamond's winning entries were designed utilizing recyclable or recycled paperboards, and manufactured 100% clean, renewable wind energy, in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility.

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Diamond Packaging Debuts its 2019 Corporate Calendar Featuring NFC Smart Tag Technology

Diamond's 2019 Calendar features cold foiling, ECG
offset printing, embossing, and NFC smart tags

Diamond Packaging today announced the debut of its 2019 corporate calendar, a popular promotional item given to customers and suppliers. It’s also the company’s first to feature NFC smart tag technology, which enables brands to connect directly with consumers.

The “Making Waves” calendar, which was conceptualized, planned, and produced by the entire Diamond team, originates from a beautiful, hand-drawn pencil drawing. The calendar features Extended Color Gamut (ECG) seven-color process printing, cold foiling, UV gloss spot coating, DiamondGlitter and DiamondReticulate specialty coatings, multi-level embossing, debossing, intricate die cutting, and NFC tagging.

“The calendar demonstrates Diamond’s cutting-edge approach to package design,” said Dennis Bacchetta, director of marketing of Diamond Packaging. “We set out to create a colorful, beautifully-decorated structural and ornamental piece — one that users will want to interact with all year long. We also wanted to showcase the type of decorative effects that can cost-effectively elevate our customers’ brands, including cold foiling and smart tagging.”

All of the components utilized recyclable paperboards, and were manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy and produced in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility.

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Diamond Packaging WIns Three Awards in 2018 Paperboard Packaging Competition

Laura Mercier Cosmetics' Exotique Face Illuminator
packaging won a PPC Excellence Award

Diamond Packaging won three awards in the 75th annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition, the industry’s premier showcase for all that is new and outstanding in paperboard packaging design and technology. Awards were presented last month at the PPC 2018 Fall Meeting and Leadership Conference in Atlanta, GA.

Diamond won awards for Laura Mercier Cosmetics' Exotique Face Illuminator packaging, Procter & Gamble's Crest 3D White Whitening Therapy packaging, and Tarte's Park Ave Princess Chisel Palette packaging.

All of Diamond’s winning entries were manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy and produced in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility.

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Diamond Packaging Wins Six Awards in 2018 Gold Ink Competition

Elizabeth Arden's Jennifer Aniston Chapter One packaging
won a Gold Ink award in the Folding Cartons category

Diamond Packaging won six awards in Printing Impressions magazine’s 31st annual Gold Ink Awards competition, the industry's most prestigious print competition. Winners were chosen from nearly 600 entries submitted in 49 different categories. Entries were judged on print quality, technical difficulty, and overall visual effect.

Diamond won awards in the “Folding Cartons” category for Elizabeth Arden's Jennifer Aniston Chapter One packaging, Laura Mercier Cosmetics' Exotique Face Illuminator packaging, Procter & Gamble's Crest 3D White Whitening Therapy packaging, Speck's Presidio Grip + Glitter packaging, and Tarte's Park Ave Princess Chisel Palette packaging.

Diamond also won an award in the "Calendars" category for its 2018 corporate calendar, a popular promotional item given to customers and suppliers.

All of Diamond’s winning entries were manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy and produced in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility.

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Diamond Packaging 2018 Calendar Featured in Printing Impressions Video

Ashley Roberts, Senior Production Editor, NAPCO Media
Printing & Packaging Group, discusses Diamond's calendar.

Diamond Packaging's 2018 calendar is featured in a Printing Impressions video highlighting great examples of visual communication.

Ashley Roberts, Senior Production Editor, NAPCO Media Printing & Packaging Group, discussed Diamond's 2018 calendar, a high-quality, year-long piece of decor that is the result of a brilliant marketing strategy showcasing Diamond's production capabilities.
 
Diamond's three-month corporate calendar is a popular promotional item given to customers and suppliers. This year’s 2018 calendar was conceptualized, planned, and produced by the entire Diamond team, and designed by Renee Guercio, one of Diamond's talented design engineers. The octagonal lighthouse piece originates from a beautiful, hand-drawn watercolor.

The calendar features cold foiling, multi-color UV printing, UV gloss spot coating, soft touch, emboss, and reticulated specialty coatings, multi-level embossing, debossing, and intricate die cutting. It also showcases the type of decorative effects that can cost-effectively transform customers' brands.

Watch the Printing Impression video.

Contact Diamond to request a 2018 calendar or folding carton samples.

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Diamond Packaging Wins Folding Carton of the Year Award in 2013 PPC Competition

Diamond Packaging won five awards, including Folding Carton of the Year, in the 70th Annual North American Paperboard Packaging Competition, the industry’s premier showcase for all that is new and outstanding in paperboard packaging design and technology. Awards were presented last month at the PPC Fall Meeting & Leadership Conference in Dallas, TX.

Diamond won the Folding Carton of the Year Award for Elizabeth Arden’s Limited Edition Sunflowers packaging. The overall presentation imparts unusual depth and distinction through creative design, material selection, UV matte and gloss spot coating, embossing, and debossing.

Diamond also won two Gold Awards and two Excellence Awards. more

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Fragrance Carton Case Study

As luminous and fresh as the fruity notes of lemon, rosewood, orange blossom, mandarin, bergamot, melon, and sweet peach used in Elizabeth Arden’s Sunflowers Eau De Toilette Spray Naturel are new carton graphics for the brand, skillfully converted by Diamond Packaging of Rochester, NY. Switching from a carton primarily printed in a golden yellow hue, with a white sunflower graphic, the new carton employs a mostly white background, with a stylized sunflower depicted in yellow on the front and back, with a deeper yellow shade used for the side panels. more

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Diamond Packaging Wins Recognition in 2012 Excellence Awards Competition

Diamond Packaging won two awards in the 26th annual packagePRINTING Excellence Awards Competition, the industry's only competition to highlight outstanding printing achievement across the full range of packaging segments – tags and labels, flexible packaging, folding cartons, and corrugated cartons. Entries were judged on print quality, functionality, and secondary converting and finishing attributes. Of the hundreds of entries submitted in 47 different categories, Diamond's entries were among those chosen for exemplifying the highest standards in the packaging industry.

Diamond won a first place award for Elizabeth Arden’s Sunflowers carton in the Folding Cartons – Offset category, and a third place award for its 2012 Calendar in the Specialty Category for Technical Achievement. more

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