Kavalan seeks to celebrate sustainability and highlight the innovative and inspiring work of its partners and customers
PVC-free wide-format materials brand Kavalan announces the launch of its Kavalan Green Leader Awards to celebrate and recognise wide-format print projects using Kavalan products. The Awards seek to put Kavalan customers, users, and distribution partners in the spotlight and to highlight their work to innovate and create impactful print whilst also reducing the impact of their work on the environment.
Entries open on Monday 24th March and close on Wednesday 16th April, 2025, with the Awards being judged by a panel of independent judges with expertise in wide-format print and sustainability.
Nova Abbott, Head of Marketing at Kavalan, says, “Since the launch of the Kavalan brand at FESPA Hamburg in 2017, we have seen some awe inspiring examples of how our customers use our PVC-free materials to deliver visual communications projects that are not only truly creative but are reducing the industry’s impact on the environment too. We want to celebrate those successes on a global stage, which is why we’re inviting both our distribution partners and our customers from around the world to share their incredible work for the inaugural Kavalan Green Leader Awards.”
Featuring a total of five categories, the Kavalan Green Leader Awards have been designed to recognise innovation that drives the industry forward, as well as approaches to sustainability that extend beyond the material choice.
The inaugural Kavalan Green Leader Awards categories are:
The Innovation Award: recognising a particularly innovative, impactful, and creative project that utilises Kavalan materials.
The Green Spirit Award: recognising a project that not only uses Kavalan materials, but extends a sustainable approach into other areas.
The Powerhouse Award: recognising a project that showcases strength, durability, and weldability of Kavalan’s PVC-free materials.
The Wrap Star Award: recognising a particularly eye-catching building wrap project.
The Kavalan Champion Award: celebrating a business that is a champion and advocate of Kavalan materials and sustainability in wide-format print.
On the judging panel are Marcus Timson, Co-Founder of online content and events organiser Future Print; Steve Lister, Global Sustainability Consultant; and Nick Widdowson, Founder of ShopperFIRST and board member of POPAI UK & Ireland.
Businesses producing wide-format print projects with Kavalan materials are eligible to enter any or all award categories while the Kavalan Champion Award is exclusively open to businesses distributing Kavalan materials in any region. Entries must be submitted in the format specified in the Entry Form for the relevant award category, taking care to adhere to the word limits, image resolution and file formats specified.
Winners will be invited to collect their award at a celebratory reception on the Kavalan booth (Stand B81, Hall 25) at FESPA Global Print Expo in Berlin in May 2025.
For information about the entry criteria for the Kavalan Green Leader Awards and to submit an entry for consideration for a Kavalan Green Leader Award, visit https://www.goforkavalan.com/award.php