Packaging Magazine is extremely proud to announce an outstanding suite of finalists in 10 Evolution Awards Categories.
The Evolution Awards is the annual Awards Program initiated and run by Australia's premier packaging publication Packaging Magazine, published by Global B2B publishing company Reed Business Information.
Supported and promoted by Australia's National Packaging Covenant, the Evolution Awards is in its 3rd year now -and is designed to promote excellence in packaging waste management.
It is the only awards program in Australia that specifically rewards sustainable packaging design and execution strategies according to Australia's National Packaging Covenant guidelines.
Judges will have their work cut out for them to present one winner from finalists in each of 10 categories at the Evolution Awards Gala dinner at L’Aqua in Darling Harbour on 20th August.
BEVERAGE PACKAGING ACTION AWARD
1. Nippy’s Fruit Juices
The Knispel Fruit Juice Group not only produce, package and distribute the well known Nippy’s brand of fresh chilled and long life juices, they also grow the trees and pick the fruit from which the juice is made. The company is committed minimising waste across both primary and secondary packaging.
2. SA Wine Industry Association
The mentor programme introduced by the South Australian Wine Industry Association (SAWIA) as a way of engaging smaller wineries in the goals of the National Packaging Content has been recognised as a finalist in the Evolution Awards.
3. The Yalumba Wine Company
The Yalumba Wine Company is dedicated to achieving the highest possible standards in its environmental management of packaging issues.
Indeed the company sees its activity in this area as fundamental to its goal of being recognised as Australia’s premier independent wine company.
4. Betta Milk
Betta Milk is a small milk processor with processing and packaging facilities and the head office located in Burnie in North Western Tasmania.
The Betta Milk Co-operative Society has made an extensive review of milk packaging procedures and continues to seek ways to assist and improve our performance and impact on the environment.
FOOD PACKAGING ACTION AWARD Proudly sponsored by Cryovac Sealed Air
1. Anchor Foods
West Australian company Anchor Foods has become a finalist because of its close attention to both the packaging of raw materials that come in for processing and the packaging of finished products that go out to customers.
2. Dairy Farmers
The ubiquitous and familiar milk crate is the foundation of Dairy Farmers place as a finalist in the Evolution Awards. Dairy Farmers have also displayed a strong commitment to the idea of consumer education with the aim of reducing the adverse environmental impacts of packaging once the product has been used.
3. Campbell Arnotts
As the maker of some of Australia’s most popular and widely distributed food products including Tim Tams, Vita Wheats and Campbell’s Soups, Campbell Arnotts is responsible for large volumes of packaging.
The company’s place as a finalist reflects its success in minimising the environmental impacts of that packaging.
PHARMACEUTICAL PACKAGING ACTION AWARD Proudly sponsored by Colorpak
1. Ego Pharmaceuticals
Ego Pharmaceuticals has earned a place as a finalist in the Evolution Awards for the second year in a row for its constant and consistent approach to sustainable outcomes.
While there has been no single, outstandingly innovative solution to packaging waste management packaging waste at Ego represents less than 0.1% of total production.
2. Felton Grimwade and Bickford Pty Ltd
The implementation of strategies that have resulted in 100% recycling rates for glass, plastic and cardboard packaging waste is the reason for Felton Grimwade’s selection as a finalist in the Pharmaceutical Packaging Action Award.
3. Blackmores
Another 2007 achiever, Blackmores has made a major revision of company policy leading to its selection as a finalist this year in the Pharmaceutical Packaging Action Award.
4 Johnson & Johnson
As the sales and marketing business behind iconic brand names like Band Aid and Johnson’s Baby products, Johnson & Johnson is in a prominent position to raise the profile of post-consumer recycling habits.
Its commitment to this task has been rewarded with selection as a finalist in the Pharmaceutical Packaging Action category.
HOUSEHOLD GOODS PACKAGING ACTION AWARD
1. Hewlett Packard
HP Australia, the local arm of global technology giants Hewlett Packard, achieved a 54% reduction in waste between 2006 and 2007, a massive improvement which accounts for its selection in the Household Goods Packaging Action Award.
2. Dulux
Paint maker Dulux’s commitment to trialling a world-first innovation in paint packaging makes it an obvious contender for the Household Goods Packaging Action Award.
3. Sony
Sony Electronics has been selected as a finalist in the category of Household Goods with the diversion of over 128,000 kg of paper and cardboard from landfill into recycling facilities.
Sony is also pursuing improvements in packaging design and selection.
4. Fred Hosking Pty Ltd
In earning its selection as a finalist in the Household Packaging Action category, stationery manufacturer Fred Hosking Pty Ltd has pursued a range of initiatives from the small and simple to the impressively innovative, from recycling to the reduction of packaging waste across the enterprise.
RETAIL PACKAGING ACTION AWARD
1. ALDI
The international grocery retailer ALDI Stores has been selected as a finalist in the category of Retail Packaging for some of its recent initiatives, but it bears noting that environmental policy has been a trademark of the brand since the first Australian store opened in 2001.
2. Gloria Jean’s Coffee
Gloria Jean’s Coffees has been selected as a finalist in the Retail Packaging Action category for its holistic approach to environmental impact and waste management from coffee beans it uses to the cups the coffee is served and the napkins used to sweep up the crumbs.
The company is in the process of reviewing the primary and secondary packaging products.
PERSONAL CARE AND COSMETICS PACKAGING ACTION AWARD
1. PZ Cussons
Maker of everything from bubble bath to clothes washing liquid, PZ Cussons has earned a place as a finalist in the Personal Care and Cosmetic Packaging category because of its diligent pursuit of ever more sustainable packaging practices, from packaging re-designs, to shrink wrap reduction and water conservation.
2. Mary Kay Cosmetics
Cosmetics company Mary Kay is coming close to achieving its goal of achieving a 100%recycling rate, earning it a place as a finalist in the Personal Care and Cosmetics Packaging category.
In the Mary Kay warehouse, a concerted campaign to recycle cardboard, paper and plastic packaging waste has had tremendous results.
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ACTION AWARD Proudly sponsored by 3M Australia
1. Hewlett Packard
Hewlett Packard’s literally ground-breaking collaborations with a group of environmental volunteers has earned the company a place as a finalist in the Community Partnership category.
In 2007, technology specialists, Hewlett Packard (HP), and environmental crusaders, Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA), joined forces.
2. Kimberly-Clark Australia
Double 2007 Evolution Awards winner Kimberly-Clark has a made a public commitment to pursuing sustainable practices in two particular areas: water usage and waste management.
Fittingly, then, it has partnered with Clean Up Australia to promote those concerns in the community, winning the company a nomination in the Community Partnership category along the way.
3. Sensis
Given that the main focus of its business is the distribution of information, Sensis is perhaps an unexpected signatory to the National Packaging Covenant.
The company’s efforts to work as environmentally responsible corporate citizens, however, has earned it a well-deserved place as a finalist in the Community Partnership Action category.
4. Visy
Australian packaging and recycling business Visy takes a very high profile position on improving the sustainable practices of its own operations as well as promoting good environmental practice in the community at large.
The company’s work in developing a national education program has won it a place as a finalist in the Community Partnership Action Award category.
MOST INNOVATIVE SOLUTION IN PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT AWARD Proudly sponsored by Confoil
1. 3M
As part of a global diversified technology company, 3M Australia has shown genuine commitment to the complex task of implementing sustainable packaging practices right across its operations.
This commitment has been honoured through its selection as a finalist in the category of Most Innovative Solution in Packaging Waste Management.
2. Nestle Australia
Along with its general excellence in packaging waste management, Nestle’s selection as a finalist in the Most Innovative Solution in Packaging Waste category is supported by its sophisticated assessment package known as the Packaging Impact Quick Evaluation Tool, or PIQET.
The tool is used to assess the environmental viability of all existing packaging and has resulted in the review and re-design of several products.
3. Kimberly-Clark Australia
While the last year has seen huge commercial challenges for Kimberly-Clark, the company has successfully integrated sustainable practices into all operational aspects of the business, earning it selection as a finalist in the Most Innovative Solution In Packaging Waste Management category.
4. VISY
Operating to a company motto of ‘We make it, we take it’, packaging and recycling giant Visy actively pursues new developments in recycling technology and greater improvements in packaging efficiency.
Visy’s selection as a finalist in the category of Most Innovative Solution in Packaging Waste Management reflects the considerable steps forward made by the company over the last twelve months.
MOST OUTSTANDING DEMONSTRATION OF PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT IN AUSTRALIA Proudly sponsored by the Buy Recycled Business Alliance (BRBA)
1. PZ Cussons, maker of laundry powders, shower gels, hand washes and soaps, has revisited the design of packages right throughout its product range.
2. Technology giant Hewlett Packard has methodically reviewed existing packaging products and pursued redesigns as necessary.
The most recent success was a redesign of toner cartridge packaging that reduced material consumption by around 45%.
3. Ego Pharmaceuticals began operations in Australia in the 1950s but now exports make up around 20% of total sales.
For that reason the company has paid special attention to reducing the impact of packaging used in the transportation and distribution of its products.
4. The Knispel Group, maker of Nippy’s Juices amongst other products, has been based in the Riverland region of South Australia since early in the 20th century.
The family-owned company has made an effort to ensure that all materials used in primary packaging are easily recyclable at a consumer level.
It has also rigourously addressed its processing operations.
5. The material savings made by Campbell Arnotts as a result of packaging reviews has been impressive.
The polypropylene wrapping around a range of snack products has been downsized and downguaged with the result that the company now consumes around five tonnes less of the material annually.
6. Paint maker Dulux has shown leadership by developing and now trialling a plastic pail recycling program.
The trials, to be run later this year, will see Dulux Trade Centres acting as collection points for the return of empty plastic pails.
The pails will be stacked and sent on to Replas who will recycle the polypropylene into think-walled products including outdoor garden furniture.
MOST OUTSTANDING DEMONSTRATION OF PACKAGING WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NEW ZEALAND Proudly sponsored by Viscount Plastics
1. Enviroreel Plastics Pty Ltd
Enviroreel has earned its selection as a finalist in the Evolution Awards for its ingenuity in striking a recycling agreement with retailing giant The Warehouse and using it to produce a form of packaging that is itself, highly sustainable.
In a single year, Enviroreel collected about 250 tonnes of plastic waste reformed it into products that were sold in New Zealand and overseas.
2. Criterion Manufacturing Ltd
A commitment to reducing the company’s dependance on polystyrene packaging has earned flat-pack furniture maker Criterion Manufacturing selection as a finalist in the Evolution Awards.
Criterion’s ultimate goal is to eliminate the use of polystyrene altogether. In the short term, however, they have achieved considerable success, reducing polystyrene consumption by about 15%.
3. Clearwater Organic Dairy
Clearwater Organic Dairy’s high quality yoghurt is transported, stored and sold in the very tub in which it was produced.
The fact that the company was able to find a packaging solution that not only met the very distinctive requirements of the product but did so with an eye to issues of sustainability has earned it selection in the New Zealand-focused category of the 2008 Evolution Awards.
Evolution Awards winners will be announced at the Gala Event held at L'Aqua in Cockle Bay Sydney on August 20. Coverage of 2008 winners will appear in Packaging Magazine's October issue.
More information from anna.game-lopata@reedbusiness.com.au
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