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  Awards

For nearly three decades, Binding Industries Association's annual Product of Excellence Awards have recognized outstanding examples of craftsmanship. Winning an award in the Product of Excellence tells your customers and prospects that the work your company produces is among the very best.

Benefits of winning include:

  • Widespread promotion – all winners will be listed in the Premier Print Awards Annual, mailed to the more than 70,000 readers of Graphic Arts Monthly
  • Your company’s name, with a link to your web site, will be featured on GAIN, one of the top resources for the latest technology, business solutions, and industry trends. More than 35,000 unique visitors log onto GAIN each month; GAIN registered users include 20,000 graphic arts professionals
  • Press releases announcing all winners will be sent to printing and related trade publications
  • A self-promotion kit that can help you build on your success and a handsome certificate to honor your achievement
  • Promotion in The Binding Edge and on www.thebindingedge.com

2007 Product of Excellence Award Winners

The following award winners were part of an amazing array of products entered in the competition this year. The quality of the entries required the judges to be highly discriminating in their evaluation of the products submitted. To win a Product of Excellence award, an entry must be technically flawless. The pieces below represent some of the best work in the industry, a standard to which other companies should strive to achieve. Winning this prestigious award is considered by many to be the pinnacle of success in the binding industry. The Binding Industries Association takes great pride in the winners and congratulates them for a job well done!

 

 “Drop Designs”

Graphic Finishing Category:  Adhesive Binding
Pacific Bindery Services

 

 

 “Atelier on Robson”

Graphic Finishing Category: They Said It Couldn’t Be Done!
Pacific Bindery Services

  

“Waldron Wealth Management”

Loose Leaf Category: Screening Multi-color
American Thermoplastic Company

 

 

“Coast to Coast”

Loose Leaf Category: Product Design
Vulcan Information Packaging

 

“Tony Roma Drinks & Desserts Menus”

Mechanical Binding Category
Heritage

 

 

“American Express”

Perfect Binding Category
Seidl’s Bindery

 

NEW! In 2008, all entry submissions will be sent directly to the BIA staff office to give BIA more oversight on how the entries are received and handled. Any work produced from January 2007 through February 2008 is eligible for the 2008 Awards. Look for complete details soon on www.bindingawards.com and start saving those winning pieces! For more information, please contact Justin Goldstein at (412) 259-1806 or jgoldstein@piagatf.org.