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AWARDS WRAP
✷ 2022 WINNERS
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING – RENEWABLES
Gold: Australia’s Most Sustainable Milk Cartons (Brownes Dairy)
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING – COMPOSTABLE
Gold (tie): Sugarcane Pulp Hot
& Cold Cup Lids (BioPak),
and FSC Rectangle Paper Containers (BioPak) Silver: FSC Paper Spoon Straws (BioPak)
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING – INDUSTRIAL
Gold: Opal & JBS Dunnage Solution (Opal)
Silver: Amcor Ecotite R (Amcor Flexibles Australia)
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING – RECYCLED CONTENT Gold: etchðos
(EGO Pharmaceuticals)
Silver: Bubble Wrap 50% recycled content air pillows (Sealed Air) Bronze: Goodman Fielder
Praise 100% rPET Bottles (Goodman Fielder)
High commendation: Goodman Fielder Meadow Fresh Milk 30% rHDPE Bottle (Pact Group)
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING
– CLOSED LOOP COLLECTION Gold: Kitkat prototype recycled content wrapper (Nestlé Australia) Silver: Nespresso Curby Coffee Capsule Collection Program
INDUSTRY PACKAGING PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR
Dr Carol Kilcullen- Lawrence, Sustainability Consultant, UPM Raflatac
2022 ABA SCHOLARSHIPS
Lea Reynolds AAIP, Commercialisation Manager, Steggall Nutrition
Mark Saturnino MAIP, Packaging Specialist, Woolworths.
AIP PRESIDENT’S SCHOLARSHIP Azadeh Yousefi AIP
refrigerator doors with finger holds positioned for ease of reach. The footprint suits industry standardised milk crates, supply chain and manufacturing assets.
Adding a smart packaging dimension, each bottle has a unique bottle identifier using a laser etched QR code protected within a recessed base.
Integrated QR code functionality allows consumers to scan the code to be directed to the ‘swappabottle’ website.
It tracks the bottle’s journey and displays live information on the specific bottle – where it was filled, best before date, how many times the bottle has been reused and, most importantly, how many single-use plastic bottles it has offset.
Retailer Coles received a silver award for the Coles Home Compostable Coffee Capsules; a bronze award went to Brownes Dairy for its entry of Australia’s Most Sustainable Milk Cartons; and Pact Group received a high commendation for the Norco 100 per cent rPET Milk Bottles.
SAVE FOOD SENSIBILITY
The Save Food Packaging Design of the Year award is designed to recognise companies that are working to minimise or prevent food waste from paddock to plate – using innovative and intuitive design features that can contain and protect, preserve and extend shelf life – all the
40%
INCREASE IN SHELF LIFE FOR INGHAMS WITH SEALED AIR NZ CRYOVAC SOLUTION
while meeting global sustainable packaging targets.
Commenting on the category, Hughson said, “Food waste is a problem of epic proportions with significant environmental impact. In Australia alone, around 7.5 million tonnes is wasted annually, and more than 50 per cent of that at household level.
“This makes designing packaging to save food a strong imperative for all food manufacturers, whether that be by using materials with enhanced barrier properties, ensuring sealing integrity and the offering the possibility of resealing, or using smart technologies to track cold chain and supply chain activity.”
In its third gold win of the day, Caps & Closures triumphed for the ThermoShield Temperature Monitoring System, which also won in the food packaging category.
Sealed Air NZ also took home gold, for the packaging for Inghams Waitoa Free Range Butterflied Chicken, a pre-marinated format that
enables an easy open and easy cooking experience and that is an easy way to mitigate waste in households.
Apart from cooking and storage instructions, and a best-before date, on-pack information includes a scannable QR code offers consumers each access to the Waitoa website for meal inspiration ideas.
Nylon can be a nuisance for recycling streams, so a high polyethylene equivalent bag of equal gauge (65 micron) was designed to overcome recycling challenges without compromising abuse resistance and protection.
The Cryovac solution incorporates 80 per cent recycled materials in this food-contact packaging application. The vacuum tight hermetic seal keeps poultry fresh and mitigates risks for human contamination.
The Cryovac 80 per cent recycled content barrier pouch, combined with optimising processing techniques at Inghams, increased shelf life by 40 per cent to 14 days.
The pack is Australasian Recycling Label soft plastics recyclable in New Zealand and recyclable through RedCycle/ store drop off programs
in Australia.
GS1 Australia and Woolworths
won silver in this category for 2DBarcodes by GS1, and there were two gold winners. ✷
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