Nobelus, a supplier of specialty flexible packaging solutions and a PRINTING United Alliance corporate supplier member, has been awarded a 2025 Pinnacle Award. The honor recognizes the company’s innovation in the Non-Output category.

The Pinnacle Awards are a prestigious honor for the the printing industry. They celebrate exceptional products and technologies that advance quality, capability, and productivity. A full online showcase gallery of the 2025 Pinnacle Award winners is available here: https://pinnacleawards.printing.org/.

Pinnacle Awards Program by PRINTING United Alliance

Open to all PRINTING United Alliance corporate supplier members, the Pinnacle Awards competition evaluates products that will be available for sale in 2025. A highly qualified panel of judges across the printing industry evaluated the annual contest’s 150+ entries in more than 50 categories. The submissions span analog, digital, output, and non-output technologies.

Key highlights about the product

• Award Category: Non-Output – Laminates, Adhesives, Films, Coatings
• Product/Technology: StrataFlex Thermal Pre-Lams
• Technology Impact: StrataFlex Thermal Pre-Lams are METPET pre-lams that include a thermal adhesive layer, enabling converters to reverse print on a film instead of the pre-lam surface. This change significantly increases efficiency for thermal converters by reducing material changeovers on-press and improving print quality for thermal packaging.

“We are thrilled to see our StrataFlex Thermal Pre-Lams recognized by PRINTING United,” says Angie Mohni, VP of marketing, Nobelus. “These products enable thermal converters to make the most of their largest equipment investment: the press. There’s currently nothing else like them on the market, so we are excited to give our customers an innovative way to increase operational efficiency and offer higher quality packaging to brands.”

PRINTING United Expo 2025

Nobelus will be exhibiting the award-winning StrataFlex Thermal Pre-Lams at PRINTING United Expo 2025 in Orlando, FL, USA, on October 22–24.

“A special note of congratulations to Nobelus and all those honored this year for their outstanding work in the 2025 Pinnacle Awards Program,” states Lindsay Ferrari, program administrator, PRINTING United Alliance. “Each Pinnacle Award recipient reflects the bold thinking and technical excellence that continues to elevate and move our industry forward.”