Medals in gold, silver and bronze were handed out in 14 different application category. The biggest winner of the night was Switzerland’s Atelier fuer Siebdruck Lorenz Boegli, which received six gongs.   

Classic Stripes won the gold medal in the functional printing category for the sample the company produced for Panasonic Econavi air compressor.

A regular winner at Fespa for its expertise in screen printing, Classic Stripes Private Limited (CSPL), established in 1987, has a production capacity of over 15 million automotive graphic sets per annum. Today, the company has a significant market share in the Indian automotive OEM printing industry. CSPL is a global player with presence in the UK, USA and the Middle East.

The company offers premium imaging solutions with diversified printing and has a strong presence in the different verticals. These include OEM graphics for the auto industry; large/small format graphics, dashboard trims and other car accessories for the retail aftermarket; fleet graphics for wrapping corporate fleets; large/small format graphics and domed labels for global markets and polycarbonate fascia for the domestic consumer durables industry.

Founded in 1962, Fespa is a global federation of 37 member associations for the screen printing, digital printing and textile printing community. Its dual aim is to promote screen printing and digital imaging and to share knowledge about screen and digital printing with its members across the world.

The 2017 Fespa Awards attracted entries from across 37 countries. This year’s winning pieces included innovative entries across all categories — 3D printed shoes and more than 30 t-shirt entries. The special effect (31 submitted) and point of purchase products - paper and board (26 submitted) categories proved to be the most popular among entrants.

The Best in Show Award went to Atelier fuer Siebdruck Lorenz Boegli, Switzerland, for its entry in the Special Effect category, ‘Le Monde des Effects’. This entry – a newspaper which combined a variety of different screen printing techniques – was universally considered the most outstanding example of innovation, grabbing the attention of every judge across the 14 categories.

This year, the Awards were judged at the FESPA’s new offices in Dorking by an independent panel of industry experts. With such a broad selection of high-quality entries to preside over this year, the judging process wasn’t easy. Graeme Richardson Locke, sales and operations director at Vektor, who served as a judge, said, “As so many submissions were of such a high quality, it made for a very difficult job for the judging panel to differentiate on technical execution alone. Fortunately, with a range of criteria to be scored, we managed in all cases to reach a consensus without too much argument.”