Our Packaging Awards
Great Northern Packaging is focused on helping our customers win by doing what others can’t or won’t. Our packaging experts maximize product performance, reduce waste, and create efficient package designs that protect your product and represent your brand. Below are some of our most recent accomplishments that demonstrate our award-winning capabilities.
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Paperboard Packaging Competition Awards
Promega Corp Custom Solutions
Excellence Award

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Great Northern has worked with Promega for over 20 years and produces secondary and tertiary packaging components for them including kit boxes, inserts, and shipping cartons.
Good Culture 12 Count Cottage Cheese
Excellence Award

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Good Culture was launched in 2014 as a “real healing foods” company that is focused on high-quality cultured dairy products, and they wanted their packaging to reflect that.
New Trail Brewing Co. Double Broken Heels 15 Ct IPA
Excellence Award

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New Trail Brewing Co. was started with the purpose of creating great beer for everyone to enjoy when they dare to explore new places, do new things, and take new trails.
Crafthouse Cocktails Bag-In-Box Drinks
Excellence Award

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High-quality graphics are printed onto the package using an offset printer with UV inks and coatings. The packages are predominantly covered in a bright, vibrant color that coincides with the tropical drink inside the package.
Chinook Seedery 18-Count Sunflower Seed
Excellence Award

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The Chinook Seedery 18-Count Sunflower Seed Retail-Ready Package features vivid color graphics and an eye-catching, die-cut header, which makes this package a stand-out retail display.
Conagra’s DUKE’s 24-Count Tall Boy
Excellence Award

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The Great Northern structural design team developed an ideal paperboard solution that provides both package strength and superior graphics.
VesterGaard’s LifeStraw 2-Pack Water Bottle
Excellence Award in Digital Application

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This award-winning package has a premium, finished look and conveys a high-perceived value to the shopper due to the quality and weight of the packaging.
Denver Beer Brewing Co. 24-Count Variety-Packs
Excellence Award for Innovative Packaging

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Great Northern’s team engineered a solution with a triple-ply, reinforced handle design. The vibrant graphics achieved with digital printing featured multiple colors and a high-gloss UV coating.
Excellence in Flexography Awards Competition
Ardisam Earthquake Outrigger Auger Torque Reducer
Combined Corrugated, Screen Category - Gold

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The Excellence in Flexography Awards is the premier awards program for the flexographic industry. It is the only competition flexographers from around the world trust to define who’s who in the package printing and converting industry. “We were thrilled to win a Gold in FTA’s Excellence in Flexography competition,” said Graphic Design Manager Sarah Murawski. “Great Northern and our customer, Ardisam, were able to collaborate and align to overcome print complexities and deliver outstanding results. This project highlights the strengths of our two teams.”
3M Rock Your Workday Box
Combined Corrugated Category – Best in Show & Gold

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Great Northern Packaging is pleased to announce that it received The Best in Show and Gold Awards in the Combined Corrugated category in the 2020 Excellence in Flexography Awards competition. The winning packaging, the 3M Rock Your Workday Box produced by the Chippewa Falls Packaging team, stood out for its flexographic print quality that achieved a good tonal range and exceptional detailed image quality.
