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Awards & recognitions

We have been honored to receive many awards and recognitions for our products, innovation, and community work in recent years.

Explore more about them below, and see recognitions and indices for the whole UPM Group on UPM.com.

World Packaging Awards 2025

Sustainable packaging

Organized by the World Packaging Organization (WPO), the awards recognize outstanding achievements in packaging innovation, design and sustainability. Our UPM Raflatac RW85C PET Wash-off solution received the Gold Prize in the Recyclable & Circular Packaging Award category.

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Green Packaging Action Awards 2025

Sustainable packaging

The awards recognize outstanding achievements in packaging innovation and sustainability. Since 2011, the awards have honored leading solutions and innovations across the packaging value chain, promoting industry collaboration and sustainable transformation. UPM Adhesive Materials received the Packaging Value Chain Collaborative Innovation Award in 2025.

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UPM Raflatac Americas - LATAM Wins 10th Consecutive ESR Award

ESR Award 2024

Sustainable Award

UPM Raflatac Americas reached the remarkable milestone of receiving the Socially Responsible Company (ESR-Empresa Socialmente Responsable) award for the 10th consecutive year! This prestigious award recognizes companies for their unwavering commitment to ethical practices, active community engagement, and dedication to sustainable development.

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Supplier of the Year 2024

Packaging Award

The Supplier of the Year award at the Pentawards 2024 competition was introduced in 2024 for the first time, and it celebrates the pivotal role that packaging manufacturers and suppliers play in transforming design concepts into impactful, real-world packaging projects.

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SPC Innovator Award 2024

Sustainable Packaging

The SPC Innovator Awards recognize meaningful contributions and advancements towards more sustainable packaging. The awards showcase the outstanding collaboration behind extraordinary advancements in sustainability.

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WPO’s Global Packaging Award 2024

Packaging award

The awards recognize the latest advancements in packaging design and technology and create a living standard of international packaging excellence from which others may learn. In 2024, the WorldStar winners were selected from 435 entries from 41 countries.

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TLMI Calvin Frost Sustainability Award 2023

Sustainability Award

This award acknowledges TLMI members that have made significant strides in environmental and social aspects of sustainability.

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Label Industry Global Awards award for Raflatac

Label Industry Global Awards 2023

Sustainability Award

This award is for a specific sustainable product or process by a supplier, converter company or end users in the label industry introduced from 1 January 2022 to 31 March 2023.

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Asheville Chamber Sky High Growth Award 2023

Business Award

This award recognizes businesses that are doing more: overcoming challenges, reaching beyond past successes, taking their business to the next level, creating jobs, and giving back.

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"Blue Planet" Sustainable Packaging Award 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Organized by International Packaging Innovation Forum (IPIF), the "Blue Planet" sustainable packaging award is dedicated to packaging innovation and sustainable development. The competition collects outstanding sustainable packaging products and innovative packaging solutions all over the world.

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Photo from Mountain Area Workforce Development Outstanding Partner of the Year Award

Mountain Area Workforce Development Outstanding Partner of the Year Award 2023

Business Award

We received an award for our efforts in supporting the Papermill that closed in Canton. We reached out to the employees who lost their jobs and offered them positions at UPM. Eventually, we ended up hiring 12 former Papermill employees.

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Carol Kilcullen-Lawrence from UPM Raflatac receiving the PIDA silwer award

PIDA Award 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Coordinated by the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP), the PIDA awards are designed to recognize companies and individuals who are making a significant difference in their field across Australia and New Zealand.

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Golden Apple Design Award 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Organized by the China Plastics Reuse and Recycling Association (CPRRA), the competition rewards companies that innovate in the field of recyclability and innovation.

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InnoPack Awards China 2022

Pharmaceutical Packaging

InnoPack Awards is a famous award in Pharmaceutical industry and this award is sponspored by CPHI, which is a global Pharma Expo organization. Our Forest Film™ by UPM Raflatac labeling solution received this award for sustainability innovation in pharma packaging.

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