BROOKFIELD, WI—Federico D’Annunzio, BOBST Group, has been chosen as the recipient of the esteemed R. Stanton Avery Global Achievement Award 2020. This is one of five Label Industry Global Awards categories, judging for which took place in July. These annual awards are now in their 17th edition.
Sponsored by Avery Dennison, the R. Stanton Avery Global Achievement Award recognizes an innovation or idea that has helped transform and progress the label industry across the world. Bestowed in memory of Stan Avery’s pioneering spirit and values, the award reflects the global nature of the industry and recognizes the collective contributions of the many as well as individuals.
D’Annunzio has been a passionate advocate of the digitization of the conventional label printing process. He joined the label industry at a time when two to three hours were required to change jobs and the operator was the master of quality. Today, with a combination of innovations which d’Annunzio has led, a complete job changeover takes around one minute. Quality control is fully digitalized with a closed-loop system monitoring pressure, register and color, all independent of the operator’s skill set.
An active member of FINAT for several years, he helped focus the association on new ideas and attracting new members. He led the setting up of REVO, a team of leading industry players co-operating to promote and optimize extended color gamut printing in the flexo label industry, allowing spot colors to be printed using a fixed seven-color ink system without changing inks between jobs. He was also instrumental in establishing the UVFoodSafe group, where key industry players worked together to promote the best practice in the use of UV inks in indirect food contact labels and flexible packaging applications.
After the acquisition of Gidue, Federico took on a senior technology innovation role at BOBST.
Previous winners of the R. Stanton Avery Global Achievement Award include: Jim DeFife of Multi-Color Corp, Alex Knott, of Dow Chemical Co, Professor Tan of PEIAC, Tomas Rink of Ritrama, Helmut Schreiner of Schreiner Group, Suzanne Zaccone of GSI Technologies and Neil McDonough of FLEXcon.