Spencer, MA-based p-s substrate provider FLEXcon names five recent developments as winners of its 2003 Awards for Innovation. The competition celebrates the top innovative applications of pressure-sensitive film, recognizing uses that expand the market for these products. FLEXcon insures impartiality for its contest by removing entrant names and also by safeguarding customers' proprietary information from each entry.

Winners include:

Most Innovative: Smyth Co./Interactive Packaging Group (St. Paul, MN) for its metallized primary label for Coors beer.

Graphic Films: Screenprint/Dow Industries (Wilmington, MA) for its digitally-printed lenticular graphic for Right Guard deodorant.

Performance Products: Extended Resources (Columbus, OH) for its WatchPAD wheelchair sensor for disabled/nursing-home residents.

Packaging: Chicago Decal (Burr Ridge, IL) for its temperature-indicator label for a wine bottle for www.winedegree.com

Product ID: Brook & Whittle Ltd. (North Branford, CT) for its Stanley Tools hammer label, which features an EAS-security component.