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News Release from: IOP: The Packaging Society - Starpack Awards
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 January 2007
Student Starpack Awards Entry Forms
Availailable
Entry forms for the Student and Schools Starpack Awards 2007, organised by IOP: The Packaging Society, are now available.
Entry forms for the Student and Schools Starpack Awards 2007, organised by IOP: The Packaging Society, are now available Designed to attract the cream of the UK's young people to a career in packaging design and technology, the Student and Schools Starpack Awards play an important role in fostering talent within the nation's schools, colleges and universities, believes IoP
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 9 Feb 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The prize ceremony will take place at the National Motorcycle Museum on May 15 during the UK's largest packaging event, the Total Processing and Packaging Exhibition 2007.
Briefs for the Student Starpack Awards 2007 include Coors Brewers - reinventing the Carling Can for one of the UK's best loved lagers; Britvic Soft Drinks - creating a pack for Drench Water Bottle for Urban Youth; Marks and Spencer and Korsnas Frovi - an Easter Egg Carton Pack; Environmentally Friendly Delicatessen Pack - Marks and Spencer and WRAP (the Waste and Resources Action Programme); Nestle and MPMA (Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association) Award - Premium Metal Gift Packaging for Chocolates, amongst other categories.
Briefs for the Schools Starpack Awards 2007 are: Pro Carton Award - Back to School Cartonboard Pack; BPI (British Polythene Industries) - Salad Growing Plastic Pack and a 'SMART' Materials Research Challenge from IOM3 (the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining).
The deadline for entries is March 2.
Awards sponsors from the packaging supply chain include: Nestle, Coors Brewers, Britvic Soft Drinks and Marks and Spencer, as well as BPI (British Polythene Industries), DS Smith Packaging, Korsnas Frovi, Rockware Glass, Smurfit Kappa UK and Tigerprint.
Other sponsors include Can Makers, IOM3 (Institute of Minerals and Mining), MPMA (Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association), Pro Carton (Association of European Cartonboard and Carton Manufacturers) and WRAP (Waste and Resources Action Programme.
The awards are supported by Design Cognition and Logoplaste UK.
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