Design Innovations - June 2011

DuPont's Packaging Innovation Awards

WILMINGTON, Del.—DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers announced winners in the 23rd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation representing breakthrough developments from brand giants such as Coca Cola, Intel, GlaxoSmithKlein, and Heinz.

"The nominees and winners this year show how sustainability considerations are driving innovation," said Shanna Moore, global director, sustainability DuPont Packaging & Industrial Polymers. "We see how sustainability takes many shapes—ranging from use of organic or renewably sourced materials to the relentless drive to reduce waste and weight."

John Bernardo, principal, Sustainable Innovations LLC, head of the jury panel, said, "Nearly all of the winning innovations related to reducing waste in the system. The jury could see a much deeper consideration of sustainability concerns, starting with responsible sourcing, thoughtful package design, all the way to end of life factors."

DuPont sponsors the Packaging Awards program as a means to recognize how collaboration throughout the value chain can bring cost-effective innovation to the market to help solve important problems. Each year the panel awards diamond, gold, or silver honors based on "excellence" in one or all of three categories: Innovation; Sustainability; and Cost/Waste Reduction.

This year's expert jury panel evaluated more than 200 entries from around the world and awarded two diamond winners, six gold winners, and eight silver winners.

Diamond Winners

• The Procter & Gamble Company and Be Green Packaging; USA

• Ecovative Design; USA

Gold Winners

• Cimplast Embalagens and Cimflex; Brazil

• Apeldoorn Flexible Packaging; The Netherlands; Cloeren; USA

• APTAR; France and USA

• Scholle Packaging and Shell Global Lubricants; USA

• Household Essentials, LLC; USA

• Moneta S; Slovakia

Silver Winners

• H.J. Heinz Company and Multivac Company; USA

• Stonyfield Farm, Clear Lam Packaging Inc., and Arcil; USA