LifeArt Australasia, a customised coffin printer, has received the silver spot in the packaging on paper and board category of the 2020 Fespa awards.
The company, based in Wetherill Park, NSW, uses Agfa UV flatbed printers as well as CHILI publish software in the design and manufacture of these coffins.
The sustainable rigid corrugated coffins are printed on Enviroboard, presenting an alternative to wood and can be printed to almost any finish and design.
They are then CAD cut using Bickers and Nordson, with a printed sheet size of 2.75m by 1.2m.
The company won the award for the manufacture of coffins from material which is made up from up to 97 per cent recycled fibres recovered from recycled cardboard and sugar cane waste.
This year’s programme received entries from 27 countries across the 18 categories.
The winners were announced during an online ceremony hosted by Fespa technical support manager Graeme Richardson-Locke in lieu of the live gala awards event which would have taken place during this year’s Global Print Expo in Madrid.
The full list of gold winners in the 17 application-specific categories are:
| Category | Company | Country |
| Display and POP on Paper and Board | Ability Diseño Gráfico, SL | Spain |
| Packaging on Paper and Board | Perfect Packaging | India |
| Display and POP on Plastic | Screenline | South Africa |
| Packaging on Plastics | TOPdesign Topolcany s.r.o. | Slovakia |
| Posters | GRAFISER,S.A | Spain |
| Serigraphy and Fine Art | Christian M. Walter – Taller de Serigrafía- Edición | Spain |
| Decals and Printed Labels | Classic Stripes PVT. LTD | India |
| Wrapping | Vermeulen & Vermeulen Reclame | Netherlands |
| Creative Special Effect – Paper, Board and Plastics | Sakawa Printing Co., Ltd. | Japan |
| Special Effect on T-Shirts, Garments and Other Textiles | Elixir Unlimited | India |
| Printed Garments | iMaika | Russia |
| Roll-to-roll Printed Textiles | The Look Company | Qatar |
| Glass, Ceramic, Metal and Wood Products | Schitterend.eu | Netherlands |
| Direct Printing on Three Dimensional Products | HAAS Die Werbemanufaktur | Switzerland |
| Non-printed Signage | HNS Signs | United Kingdom |
| Functional Printing | Protolab Electrotechnologies PVT. LTD | India |
| Printeriors | BOBO1325 | United Kingdom |
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