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Five wins for Saica at the Starpack Awards


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aica Pack is celebrating after receiving five trophies at the recent annual Starpack


Industry Awards. The corrugated cardboard


packaging specialist was recognised for its innovative designs created for a wide range of clients. David Wilbraham, sales,


commercial & marketing chief at Saica Pack, commented: “At Saica Pack we work day after day to develop corrugated cardboard packaging solutions to meet our clients’ needs. We are proud to have had this work recognised with five highly-respected Starpack Awards. “The awards represent the


creativity and talent of Saica Pack’s design teams and we are delighted to showcase the innovation taking place within the corrugated packaging sector.” For its consumer-facing designs,


Saica Pack received three trophies across food and drink categories. The company picked up silver for


a novel carrier designed for Small Beer Brew Co. The corrugated cardboard carrier enabled the brewer to launch a six-bottle pack. Judges praised the packaging for its “classy execution” adding “it introduces a new carrier system into the marketplace.” The product was designed by Elena Garcia Castro from Saica Pack South West. An eye-catching design for quail egg company Cackleberry Farm received bronze. The box, which holds 12 eggs, has been well received on social media


July/August 2019


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Starpack award winners (right to left) Colin Savage, Saica Pack account manager, and Dave Powell, Saica Pack NDC manager UK & Ireland, receive their trophies from an unidentified Starpack presenter


and by chefs with judges also commenting: “An attractive pack for a high end product.” Elena Garcia Castro also designed this packaging. The judges also praised Saica


Pack’s Brewdog Advent Calendar, awarding it bronze. The design, which has doors that can be opened to reveal Brewdog cans or bottles of beer, was honoured for being “a good gift presentation for the advent season. Well designed for its distribution channel”. The packaging was created by Kevin O’Neil based at Saica Pack Scotland.


In the business category, Saica


Pack won bronze for a shelf-ready packaging design for Kilmeaden Cheese. The fully recyclable pack securely holds and displays cheese packs and was selected by judges because it “shows a thoughtful progression from the use of plastic to a single material pack”. It was created by Saica Pack’s Ireland design team, led by Sean Gibney. The final award was in the


transit category and honoured packaging designed to store and transport fragile but heavy street- lighting units. Designed for Thorn


CiviTEC, the corrugated design has streamlined the firm’s assembly lines by around a third and is fully recyclable. Judges said it was a “good solid design with some very clever features”, adding that it “uses single board in a very constructive way”. The packaging was designed by Ken Dunne, Abi Mountain and Charlotte Hall from Saica Pack North East. Saica is a leading player in


Europe with the development and production of recycled paper for corrugated cardboard, and production of 3.3 million tons a year.


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