20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation 2007/08
April 21, 2008
Wilmington, Delaware
Marks & Spencer’s Swiss Chocolate Assortment with Plantic “environmentally friendly” packaging was selected as one of the winners at the 20th DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation. The Marks & Spencer chocolate box was recognized for its eco-sensitive packaging which demonstrates excellence in sustainability, innovation and quality.
The Plantic® tray inside the Marks & Spencer Swiss Chocolate Assortment offers the unique properties of being: biodegradable after use; home compostable; compostable to European (EN13432) and American (ASTM 6400) standards; and made from renewable and sustainable resources (non-GM corn starch) that are non-toxic to the environment.
Contributors to this packaging project also include Stäger, Switzerland, who were responsible for thermoforming the Plantic® trays and Chocolat Frey, Switzerland, the chocolate manufacturers.
View the juror’s comments about this concept.
For further information please contact:
Matthew Perrier
General Manager - Sales & Marketing
Phone: + 61 3 9353 7980
Mobile: + 61 423 608 929
Email: matthewp@plantic.com.au
UK Packaging Awards 2006
September 27, 2006
Hilton Metropole, Birmingham, England.
Plantic Technologies Limited won the Environmental Packaging Award and received a High Commendation in the Environmental Company of the Year Award for the Nestlé Dairy Box.
Plantic is very excited to win these UK Packaging Awards as they again demonstrate the strong interest from the industry in biodegradable packaging.
For further information please contact:
Matthew Perrier
General Manager - Sales & Marketing
Phone: + 61 3 9353 7980
Mobile: + 61 423 608 929
Email: matthewp@plantic.com.au
Starpack Awards 2006
July 5, 2006
London, England
Silver Star Awarded and Best in Category
At the 2006 Starpack Awards, Plantic Technologies Limited was awarded a 'Silver Star' in the category of 'Best Packaging Innovation Leading to a Significant Reduction in Household Waste'.
The application on which the award was based was the Nestlé Dairy Box.
For further information please contact:
Matthew Perrier
General Manager - Sales & Marketing
Phone: + 61 3 9353 7980
Mobile: + 61 423 608 929
Email: matthewp@plantic.com.au
DuPont Innovation Award 2005
May 13, 2006
Plantic Technologies Limited was announced as the winner in the 'Performance Materials' category and also received the prestigious 'DuPont Chairman's Award'.
The DuPont Australia and New Zealand Innovation Awards, held on the 12th May 2006 at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Melbourne, are an independently judged event that are designed to recognize innovation and advances in industry, science and agriculture.
The keynote address at the awards was given by the Victorian Minister for Innovation, the Honorable John Brumby.
For further information please contact:
Matthew Perrier
General Manager - Sales & Marketing
Phone: + 61 3 9353 7980
Mobile: + 61 423 608 929
Email: matthewp@plantic.com.au
Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas 2005
13 January 2005
Plantic was a finalist in the 2005 Saatchi & Saatchi Award for World Changing Ideas. The Saatchi & Saatchi global network is part of the Publicis Groupe, the world's fourth largest communications group. The role of the Award is to uncover and spotlight innovations in communication that have the potential to change the world.
Every two years it is judged by a panel of people from a wide range of disciplines. For 2005 the Award panel included lateral thinking pioneer Dr Edward De Bono, film director Baz Luhrmann and singer Lou Reed, among others.
Bob Isherwood, Saatchi & Saatchi's Worldwide Creative Director and creator of the Award said, "The diversity of the finalists indicates how wide ranging the issues are that need to be addressed - and their ingenuity demonstrates the focus of innovators to try and effect the necessary changes."
Plantic is proud to be a finalist and be recognised worldwide by innovative thinkers as having produced a world-changing idea.
For further information please contact:
Matthew Perrier
General Manager - Sales & Marketing
Phone: + 61 3 9353 7980
Mobile: + 61 423 608 929
Email: matthewp@plantic.com.au
Australian Museum Eureka Prize 2004
August 11, 2004
Sydney: Australian Company Plantic Technologies was last night awarded the prestigious Australian Museum Eureka Prize for Industry 2004 for its biodegradable plastic.
Plantic Technologies developed and now manufactures a revolutionary plastic from plants which disperses rapidly on contact with water. It is considered one of the most significant advancements in packaging technology in the last decade.
The Plantic Technologies developed and now manufactures a revolutionary plastic from plants which disperses rapidly on contact with water. It is considered one of the most significant advancements in packaging technology in the last decade.
The company was awarded the Australian Museum's top prize which recognises innovation and outstanding commitment to research and development. The prize includes becoming a member of the Australian Museum's Immortals Program in which Plantic will receive permanent recognition by having a new species of fly after it -called Krakatauia planticorum. The specific ephithet 'planticorum' means that this species is named after all the people associated with Plantic Technologies Limited.
Two years ago the Australian Cooperative Research Centre for International Food Manufacture & Packaging Science created Plantic Technologies to commercialise its world first invention which produced plastics from plants. This exciting new product is a technological solution to the environmental problems associated with plastic packaging - a non-sustainable source material difficult to dispose.
It is a world first creating a truly environmentally friendly plastic which can compete on cost and functionality with petrochemical based plastics but which will disperse rapidly on contact with water, literally disappearing before your eyes.
Plantic achieved another world first recently with its rigid packaging gaining accreditation to international compostable and biodegradable standards. The places Plantic at the forefront of the global biopolymer marketplace with instant recognition in key markets such as Europe, Japan, and the USA.
Plantic's ongoing commitment to innovation and establishment of a world class R&D team based in Melbourne has ensured not only its success with the first products but has followed this up with a stream of new technologies allowing expansion from food packaging applications into public health, cosmetics, medical devices, and pharmaceuticals.
For further information please contact:
Matthew Perrier
General Manager - Sales & Marketing
Phone: + 61 3 9353 7980
Email: matthewp@plantic.com.au
