Art director Jessica Jordan took second place for feature page design for a story by staff writer Gayle Putrich on the part plastics took in protecting medical workers fighting the Ebola outbreak in Africa last year. Putrich donned a full protective suit during NPE 2015 in Orlando, Fla., at a booth staffed by the Flexible Vinyl Alliance. Photographer
Joe Wilssens documented the process.
Senior staff reporter Frank Esposito and Editor Don Loepp won third place for breaking/spot news for their coverage of the Dow Chemical Co. and DuPont Co. announcement of their planned merger.
Loepp
Loepp also won an honorable mention for general column writing.
Plastics News competes in the Print Class C category, which is for non-daily newspapers, magazines and trade