Diamond Packaging won seven awards in the 28th Annual FSEA Gold Leaf Awards Competition, considered a premier showcase for foil stamping, embossing, and other specialty effects. 
 
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 a Gold Leaf award in the “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Rigid Box (Best Engineered)” category for its Diamond Lockbox certified child-resistant packaging.
 
Diamond Lockbox folding cartons are an upscale, certified child-resistant packaging solution for medical or recreational marijuana products, combining beauty and strength in cannabis packaging design. 
 
Fragrance & Cosmetic Packaging Awards
 
Diamond won a Silver Leaf award in the “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Folding Carton (Difficult)” category for Inter Parfums’ Dunhill Icon Absolute packaging. The cartons were converted utilizing metallized polyester film (laminated to FSC-certified SBS board) and offset printed with opaque white, dense black, and transparent gold inks, in-line with aqueous satin matte coating. The inside was printed with process black ink, in-line with aqueous coating.
 
Diamond won a Silver Leaf award in the “Best Use of Specialty UV Coating – Screen (Raised, Textured, or Glitter)” category for Parlux Fragrances’ Gold Rush Man Paris Hilton packaging.
The cartons were converted utilizing metallized polyester board and offset printed with UV gold, black, and opaque white inks, with UV flexo glitter pearl coating, and UV matte coating. 
 
A Bronze Leaf award went to Diamond in “Best Use of Cold Foil” category for P&G’s Head & Shoulders Royal Oils Instant Soothe Scalp Elixir packaging. The cartons were converted utilizing Clearwater Candesce SBS paperboard, cold foiled, and offset printed with four color process and three PMS inks, in-line with UV matte coating, and UV gloss spot coating.
 
Another Bronze Leaf was awarded in the “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Folding Carton (Creative)” category for Parlux Fragrances’ Illuminare Intensa Vince Camuto packaging.
 
Corporate Calendar 
 
Diamond won Silver Leaf awards in the “Best Use of Cold Foil” and “Best Use of Foil/Embossing – Calendar” categories for its 2021 corporate calendar. The 2021 calendar pays tribute to Susan B. Anthony, a Rochesterian (Rochester is the home of Diamond Packaging) leading social reform, women’s suffrage, and the abolitionist movement. 
 
All of Diamond’s winning entries were designed utilizing recyclable or recycled paperboards and manufactured using 100% clean, renewable wind energy, in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility.