Page 42 - Food&Drink August 2022 magazine

AWARDS WRAP
✷ AND THE 2022 WINNERS ARE...
Packaging design
In a live and virtual awards ceremony held during FoodTech Queensland, the winners of the 2022 Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDAs) were announced.
FOOD PACKAGING DESIGN OF THE YEAR
Gold: ThermoShield Temperature Monitoring System – Food
(Caps & Closures)
OUTSIDE OF THE BOX DESIGN OF THE YEAR Gold: JBS & Opal
Dunnage Solution
(Opal)
Silver (tie): TGA
Table Grapes Project
(Result Group) and
Cadbury Roses
limited edition
Mother’s Day
chocolates (Opal)
Bronze: Peter
Jackson Garment Box (Production Packaging Innovations)
High commendation: Lousy Ink (Close the Loop Group)
MARKETING DESIGN
OF THE YEAR AWARD
Gold: Australia’s Most Sustainable Milk Cartons (Brownes Dairy)
Silver: Hungry Jack’s Uno Promotion (Result Group)
Bronze: etchðos (EGO Pharmaceuticals)
ACCESSIBLE & INCLUSIVE PACKAGING DESIGN
OF THE YEAR
Gold: Accessible & Inclusive category is Voltaren Osteo
Gel 12 Hourly (Glaxosmithkline Consumer Healthcare Australia) Silver: EzyGrip Cap
(Caps & Closures)
Bronze: Nestlé Purina Total Care (Pet Accessories) (Nestlé Purina Australia)
Silver: Cadbury Roses
limited edition Mother’s Day chocolate box (Opal)
Bronze: Maggi Recipe Base Mono-PP Sachet
(Huhtamaki Australia)
High commendations: Frutmac Zippmatic 100% Paperboard Foodtainer (Auspouch) and Nestlé Easter egg range (Nestlé Australia)
BEVERAGE PACKAGING DESIGN OF THE YEAR
Gold: Synlait Swappa Bottle (Synlait Milk Limited).
Silver: Coles Home Compostable Coffee Capsules (Coles)
Bronze: Australia’s Most Sustainable Milk Cartons (Brownes Dairy)
High commendation: Norco 100% rPET Milk Bottles (Pact Group)
LABELLING & DECORATION DESIGN OF THE YEAR
Gold: ID-Shield Anti-Counterfeit System (Caps & Closures)
Silver: Billson’s Christmas Gin (Billson’s)
Bronze: Hungry Jack’s Uno Promotion (Result Group)
AT this year’s Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards (PIDAs), it was innovative packaging that addressed sustainability and accessibility, and smart packaging design incorporating intelligent packaging technology that shone.
In the Gold Award tally, Caps & Closures scored top count with three, while BioPak, Brownes Dairy, Production Packaging Innovations, Nestlé Australia and Opal Group each won two.
Now in its eighth year, this pinnacle awards programme for the Australia and New Zealand region is co-ordinated by the peak industry education and training body, the Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP).
The awards presentation was co-hosted by Nerida Kelton, AIP executive director, and Lindy Hughson, publisher of PKN Packaging News and Food & Drink Business, the exclusive media partners of the PIDAs.
All PIDA 2022 winners are eligible to enter the WorldStar 2023 competition, which will be presented at Interpack 2023, in Dusseldorf, Germany next May.
FOOD PACKAGING
WITH FLAIR
Hughson said with the majority of packaging destined for the food sector, the Food Packaging Design of the Year category is always hotly contested, with this year’s finalists showcasing a high level of innovation.
Judges awarded two high commendations, one to Auspouch for its Frutmac Zippmatic 100 per cent Paperboard Foodtainer, and one to Nestlé Australia for the Nestlé Easter Egg packaging range.
A bronze award went to Huhtamaki Australia for its Maggi Recipe Base Mono-PP
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