Packaging Europe and NürnbergMesse has announced partnership to host the fifth annual, international Sustainability Awards at FachPack 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany on 25 September 2019. Simultaneously submissions for this year’s competition are also open now. Integrated into FachPack’s supporting program, the Sustainability Awards ceremony will once again be presented in conjunction with the Sustainable Packaging Summit, curated by Packaging Europe to form the unmissable sustainability event of the year.
The Sustainability Awards is established as the most serious, rigorous and prestigious international competition for sustainability in packaging. Throughout this year, the initiative will serve as a focal point to discuss innovation strategies and cross-fertilize ideas. At its culmination at FachPack 2019, the Sustainability Awards will also recognize the most outstanding advances made by the packaging value chain across six core categories.
The Benchmark for Sustainable Packaging Innovation
Packaging waste, climate change and other environmental crises demand an urgent and joined up response from the Consumer Packaged Goods industry. Challenging us to take a rigorous and holistic view, the Sustainability Awards sets the agenda on best practice, turns the spotlight on the most important areas of R&D, and helps separate greenwash from the innovations that make a genuine difference.
The Sustainability Awards is independently judged by an expert jury representing a cross-section of the European value chain, including leading brand owners and retailers (including Amazon, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and P&G), sustainability organizations, waste management, academia and industry experts. Each year the competition sees ever growing engagement, assessing submissions from start-ups and global brands by the same, careful criteria.
The competition’s categories spotlight each of the key areas of innovation where the environmental footprint of packaging and packaged goods can be reduced, from resource efficiency to recycling, biomaterials to greener packaging machinery, and driving best practice at the brand owner and retailer level. Moreover, across all categories the judges are instructed to favor holistic solutions over those whose gains in one area may be offset by negative side-effects in others.
Cornelia Fehlner, director FachPack, commented:
“Everyone knows that sustainability is the number one challenge facing the packaging industry. Therefore “environmentally friendly packaging” is the key theme for FachPack 2019 and will be reflected at the stands of many exhibitors, in the lecture forums, special shows and of course award ceremonies. We’re delighted to host the Sustainability Awards. Together with the Sustainable Packaging Summit, our partnership with Packaging Europe directs a valuable spotlight on solutions to the critical environmental challenges facing packaging. Wednesday afternoon at the Forum PackBox is set to be one of the highlights of the fair for attendees.”
Tim Sykes, Packaging Europe’s head of content, said:
“We’re delighted to bring the industry’s leading sustainability event to the leading packaging fair in Europe in 2019. Following an upsurge in engagement in the Sustainability Awards in 2018, we expect to see even more submissions and inspiring innovation this year. In marking the most significant advances in sustainable packaging, the Sustainability Awards aims to focus attention on what is possible. Besides picking winners, the initiative stimulates debate, but also promotes adoption and cross-fertilization of the enormous amount of innovation taking place in packaging technology, whether in the form of early-stage R&D, fully launched solutions or cross-industry collaboration projects.”
Source: Packaging Europe