NEWS
Starpack Industry Awards open to entries from the packaging community
The Industry Awards scheme, now in its 54th year, is the UK's premier annual awards scheme recognising innovation in packaging design and technology. They are now open to entries from brand owners, end users, designers, manufactures, marketers and packer fillers.
ntering the awards opens up the opportunity for innovative designs to be recognised more widely in the packaging community, and raising their profile and the reputation of the companies involved. The Starpack awards also give designers potential for global acclaim, with their links the WorldStar Awards. The different categories open to entry are:
E Luxury and giftware
Including seasonal packaging such as Christmas-gifts or Easter Eggs, or high-end products like perfume or jewellery
Food
All food packaging including fresh, frozen or other
Beverage
All food packaging including fresh, frozen or other
Graphic Design, Printing and Other Decoration
Graphic and new or existing reproduction techniques that add outstanding value to the pack, aesthetic or other
Health and Beauty Care
Includes supplements, cosmetics, perfumes, hair, body and oral care, pharmaceutical and OTC medicines, healthcare and vitamins
Pack/Product Integration
Graphic designers and product designers have been creatively inventing new forms of packaging to maximize the function of product packaging
Retail Ready/Point of Sale
End of aisle display units, shelf ready and chilled distribution
Structural Design
Practical solutions that blend inspiration and creativity into sales-performing product
Technical Innovation
The application of technology and creative thinking that benefits the quality of the product contained, its presentation, the raw-materials used, the pack construction – useability, openability, supply chain efficiency convenience in production
Transit
Packaging designed to ship a product from one place to another. Incorporating Business 2 Business and Business 2 Consumer, industrial (heavy duty), distribution packaging, direct to front door, internet sales
Other categories
Any product not captured in the specific categories such as household, home & garden, automotive, toys, clothing, DIY, and electrical
Green Star Environment & Sustainability Award
In the Judges' view the idea that best addresses the environmental question
Packaging Superstar
Packs from the various award categories will be put forward for the ultimate award - the best in show.
The deadline for entries is 3 May 2013 and full category and entry details are available at
www.iom3.org/content/star pack-industry-awards
New Zealand Government to introduce plain cigarette packaging
The New Zealand Government has legislated that all tobacco products are to be sold plain packaging. This comes just a year after the Australian Government brought in similar changes. In April 2012 the Government had agreed 'in principle' to introduce a plain packaging regime in alignment with Australia pending the outcome of a public consultation process. The public consultation closed on 5 October 2012 and Cabinet considered a report on the consultation outcomes last month. Plain packaging for tobacco will mean cigarette packs and tobacco pouches will have much larger pictorial health warnings and be stripped of all marketing imagery tobacco used to promote the product. The colours and design of the packs will be standardised in
regulations designed to maximise the impact of the health warnings. Tobacco brand names will have to be printed in standard type fonts and sizes.
Associate Minister for Health
Tariana Turia “There is a risk that tobacco companies will try and mount legal challenges against any legislation, as we have seen in Australia. In making this decision, the Government acknowledges that it will need to manage some legal risks. As we have seen in Australia, there is a possibility of legal proceedings. To manage this, Cabinet has decided that the Government will wait and see what happens with Australia’s legal cases, making it a possibility that if necessary, enactment of New Zealand legislation and/or regulations could be delayed pending those outcomes."
Plastic Industry Awards Open The organisers of the annual
Plastics Industry Awards have announced details of the 2013 competition for the most respected accolades in the UK plastics industry. The deadline for award entries is 17 May 2013 and the black-tie gala awards ceremony will be on Friday 27 September 2013 at the London Hilton on Park Lane. The Plastics Industry Awards reward excellence in materials usage,
design and manufacturing as well as training and environmental performance. Launched in 2001, the awards comprise 15 categories judged by a panel of industry experts. There are opportunities for supplier companies, OEM manufacturers, plastics processors, consultants, trainees and designers to all showcase their work. Entry is free and can be completed online at
www.plasticsawards.com.
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