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Review 2022
38 winning innovations, including 6 gold winners at the German Packaging Award 2022
At a special industry event on the first day of FACHPACK, the Deutsche Verpackungsinstitut e. V. announced the winners of the Gold Awards at this year's German Packaging Award on 27 September 2022. (press information)
The six best innovations of 2022 come from the categories of economy, sustainability, digitization, packaging machines and young talent.
With the Gold Awards, the independent jury of the internationally advertised German Packaging Award honours particularly groundbreaking innovations from the circle of packaging award winners. The winners of the German Packaging Award were announced at the beginning of August (more info).
On our website, we present all Gold Award winners and packaging award winners with pictures and the jury's evaluation text.
The 2022 Gold Awards go to:
- A fundamental innovation in film laminating technology from POLIFILM EXTRUSION GmbH.
- A remarkably sustainable and ingeniously child-safe box for washing tabs from Procter & Gamble Service GmbH.
- An extremely weight-reduced and fully recyclable two-part PE monomaterial tube with a high PCR content from the Albéa Group in France.
- Software for measuring and optimising recyclability from Institut cyclos-HTP GmbH.
- An innovative pharmaceutical machine solution for the smallest batch sizes, high format flexibility and minimal operator intervention from Syntegon Technology GmbH.
- An innovative pump dispenser with standard DIN thread and integrated dosing spoon, which means safe dosing especially for people with motor or visual impairments.
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Review 2021
Award ceremony at the FACHPACK 2021 in Nuremberg, Germany
The Hall of Fame of top packaging innovations has just been extended with 15 new outstanding solutions.
The Gold Awards were announced on 28 September 2021 at the FACHPACK trade fair. The German Packaging Award is advertised internationally and the independent jury honour particularly ground-breaking innovations from among the winners with Gold Awards.
Out of the total 15 Gold Awards announced, four were conferred in the Sustainability category. In addition to these, there were two awards each in the Functionality & Convenience and New Material categories as well as one each for Digitalization, Design & Processing, Logistics & Material Flow, Packaging Machinery, Presentation of Goods and Economic Efficiency. The jury also decided to make a special Gold Award in the Young Talents category.
The announcement and conferment of the Gold Award trophies coincided with the presentation of a certificate to the winners of the German Packaging Award 2021 at a special industry event – which was also broadcast online – on the first day of the FACHPACK trade fair in Nuremberg.
You can find a brief overview of the award-winning solutions as well as statements by the German Packaging Institute, as the organizer of Europes' biggest showcase for packaging achievements, in our press release: Gold Awards presented for the years' best innovations.
