Sappi Wins PRINT Awards With Its 2023 Holiday Kit

Campaign created by VSA takes third place in the self-promotion category

BOSTON — July 17, 2024 — Sappi North America Inc., a leading producer and supplier of diversified paper, packaging products and pulp, announced today its PRINT Awards win for the 2023 Sappi Holiday Kit, underscoring Sappi’s dedication to the intersection of sustainability and design featuring its products ability to shine in the packaging industry.

Used to express gratitude and appreciate towards customers for their valued partnership and business with Sappi, the Holiday Kit is a highly anticipated, limited-edition kit exemplifying the seamless integration of sustainability, craft and exceptional design in the packaging industry. It includes shipping and interior boxes, envelopes, cards and stickers that both surprise and delight recipients. The contents include blue and gold foil stamp, embossing, soft-touch coatings, reticulating varnish and chrome silver inks.

"We’re honored to receive this recognition from PRINT for the team’s efforts on the Holiday Kit,” said Patti Groh, Director of Communication for Sappi North America. “Every part of this collection is carefully designed and crafted with the recipients’ experiences in mind. Even the smallest items have a big impact when presented in a beautiful package, and these kits were designed to provide recipients with simple yet memorable moments of delight while opening.”

The goal of the PRINT Awards is to elevate the best domestic and international work for the year through 26 comprehensive categories targeting every aspect of graphic design, from identities to type design, web design to concept work. Only three professional projects are given awards in each category by a global jury representing a broad range of targeted disciplines and perspectives. Submitted work was judged based on originality, innovation, longevity and most importantly, craft.

The 2023 Holiday Kit can be ordered online on Sappi’s website. The Kit is released annually each holiday season.

About Sappi North America, Inc.

Sappi North America, Inc., headquartered in Boston, is a market leader in converting wood fiber into superior products that customers demand worldwide. Our four diversified businesses – high-quality Graphic Papers, Dissolving Pulp, Packaging, and Specialty Papers deliver premium products and services with consistent quality and reliability. Our high-quality Coated Printing Papers are used for premium magazines, catalogs, books, direct mail and high-end print advertising. We are a leading manufacturer of Dissolving Pulp, which is used in a wide range of products, including textile fibers and household goods. We deliver sustainable Packaging and Specialty Papers for luxury packaging and folding carton applications with our single-ply packaging brands and for the food and label industries with our specialty papers. We are one of the world's leading suppliers of Casting and Release Papers with lines for the automotive, fashion and engineered films industries.

Sappi North America is a subsidiary of Sappi Limited (JSE), a global company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa, with more than 12,000 employees and manufacturing operations on three continents in seven countries and customers in over 150 countries. www.sappi.com

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