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
• Plastipak Packaging; USA; Tescor HR; France
• The Coca-Cola Company; Japan
• Positive Packaging Industries, Ltd.; India
• Intel Corporation; USA
• GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare, API Laminates, Chesapeake Packaging, and Blue Marlin; UK
• Perfecseal, a Bemis Company, and Arthrex, Inc.; USA
P&G's Gillette Fusion ProGlide won a Diamond Award for its use of a formable pulp tray made of renewable bamboo and bulrush fiber-based materials.
CTI, Monster Energy Salute U.S. Military
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Chromatic Technologies Inc. (CTI), a specialized ink company, expanded into a new market with the launch of commemorative cans of Monster Energy drinks earmarked for the U.S. armed forces worldwide. The cans salute the military men and women who have helped keep America a free democracy for 235 years.
As the cans are chilled, the color of the uniforms transition from a 'desert camo' color to a cold-weather, arctic blue color. The cans will be available from Memorial Day through July 4th and sold exclusively on military bases at home and abroad.
The concept for the military can was developed in-house at Monster Energy, with the soldier initially being a line drawing. Monster had been searching for an innovative idea for the use of CTI's thermochromic ink technology, and brought the two ideas together by working on the color and temperature options. The artwork for the cans was created by noted artist Dick Kramer, whose works have celebrated America's military, law enforcement, and firefighting personnel for decades. pP