Kavalan Green Leader Award winners at FESPA 2025
PVC-free banner pioneer Kavalan turned its stand at FESPA 2025 in Berlin into a stage to celebrate the Green Leader Awards, a programme that puts customers into the spotlight who create spectacular print using sustainable substrates. Communications consultant Karis Copp led the ceremony, while an independent jury that included industry voices Marcus Timson, Nick Widdowson and Steve Lister picked five winners from projects submitted:
Powerhouse Award – Embrace Building Wraps (UK)
IKEA Oxford Street, London
A 2,400 m² wrap turned a central-London construction site into a supersized bag. Judges loved the ‘bold, word-free statement’ that broadcast IKEA’s sustainability ethos in pure colour and scale.
Wrap Star Award – Embrace Building Wraps (UK)
Sandhurst Block, Berkshire
Embrace’s second win dressed a disused army barracks in art-led graphics that hid scaffolding, championed local community and hinted at the site’s future life.
Green Spirit Award – Blue Rhine (UAE)
Emirates Golf Club, Dubai
Hoardings and on-course displays printed on Kavalan kept branding sharp and water use low—key in a region where every litre counts.
Innovation Award – Groupe Mediagraphic (France)
Paris Olympic Photographic Trail
City-spanning murals for Raymond and Simon Depardon wrapped bare façades with giant images yet held colour during one of Paris’ hottest summer. The panel called it ‘legacy-minded impact on an Olympic scale.’
Kavalan Champion – CMYUK (UK)
Kavalan’s sole in-house accolade went to CMYUK – who earned the title for its greener choices, championing Kavalan products and keeping sustainability at the top of wide-format conversations.
‘FESPA is where wide-format meets, so it’s the right place to show that eco-materials can handle flagship work,’ Nova Abbott, Kavalan’s Head of Marketing, told me.
Each winner walked away with a recycled-aluminium trophy and an Eco Calculator report detailing the carbon, water and energy they saved by dropping PVC.
The class of 2025 has set a high bar—and wrapped it, fittingly, in greener material.