Ten Indian companies, including multinational ITC, are among the 214 winners of the WorldStar 2024, the global packaging competition organized by the World Packaging Organization (WPO). This edition attracted 435 entries from 41 countries. The top five winners, by country, are Japan (28), Germany (21), Australia and New Zealand (16), the US (12), and Brazil and Austria (11 each). India had 10 winners.
The award ceremony will take place in Thailand, on 15 June, during ProPak Asia. On the same occasion, WPO will announce the winners for the special categories — President’s Award, Sustainability Award, Marketing Award and Packaging that Saves Food Award.
Each year, WPO recognizes the best in packaging innovations from across the globe. Its objective in organizing the awards is to increase awareness of the importance of packaging in having a better life and to recognize the innovation and efforts of brand owners, designers, students, and branding agencies for creating packaging solutions of the future and also responding to new challenges and global trends such as sustainability and hygiene.
ITC bagged three spots in the alcoholic beverages and food categories. For Pernod Ricard India, ITC developed the sustainable new Chivas18 Limited Edition Pack, whose lid is reproduced through renewable raw materials, replacing the conventional molded plastic. In food, ITC’s Independence Day Pack is a plastic-free dal pack for Maharani Dall Mill Private Limited, which has been packaged using high-strength paper and biodegradable sealant technology, along with a Microwavable POP BOX, to enjoy hot & fresh popcorn straight from the box.
Huhtamaki India’s transparent barrier snack packs address the visibility challenges of the highly competitive and cluttered segment of snacks. Toppan Speciality Films India has been awarded in the Packaging Materials and Components category for its next-generation coated BOPP label for high-speed UV flexo printing machines. Apart from these, the other Indian awardees are Jyothi Labs, Safepack Industries, Mullackal Polymers, and Zydus Life Sciences.
“It is always with pride and excitement that WPO announces the best of the best packaging innovation around the globe. The WorldStar Awards showcases how dynamic and technological the packaging is globally,” celebrates Luciana Pellegrino, WPO president.
Company: Jyothy Labs
Country: India
Category: Household
IML (In-mould labeling) was integrated into the product packaging, making it the first-of-its-kind in liquid detergent across FMCG categories. The IML technology fuses the label, eliminating wrinkles and misalignment, and reducing rework. The bottle’s design and shape make it easy to handle and add
to the premium look. By adopting the IML technology, the bottle weight has been reduced. In addition, label liner wastage has been eliminated. This approach has helped eliminate the need for post-moulding operations such as labeling and shrink-sleeving.
Chivas Regal 18 Years
Company: ITC, PERNOD RICARD
Country: India
Category: Alcoholic Beverages
The new Chivas18 Limited-Edition Pack is built on the theme of sustainability, with a touch of flora & fauna of the coastal region. The lid is reproduced through renewable raw material, replacing the conventional molded plastic. The effect of conventional lustrous silver metallized PET film is replaced through an elite metallic silver print through the gravure print process. The pack launch was unveiled at a soiree hosted at The Charcoal Project in Mumbai. The strength of the pack comprises a bottom rigid box & a two-piece eco-friendly rigid paperboard-based lid reinforced through high grammage board-to-board laminated substrate with more than 1000GSM.
Compostable Super PLA Coated Paper/Board for Food
Company: Safepack Industries Ltd
Country: India
Category: Food
Safepack has utilized its packaging research and expertise to develop new generation biodegradable/compostable paper board to overcome the shortcomings of regular PLA-coated board, which especially had lower Kit value. Safepack’s 100% Compostable Super Calendared PLA Coated Paper/ Board has a 28% enhanced kit value. The product offers the optimum convenience that folded cartons and eCommerce packaging demand in terms of lightness, flexibility and durability and carrying products, making it an ideal choice specifically for food deliveries, buffets and eCom deliveries.
Cerviprime Gel – Sterile packaging system for women’s personal hygiene
Company: Zydus Lifesciences Limited
Country: India
Category: Medical and pharmaceutical
The multi-component packaging system is conceptualized to simultaneously fulfill various requirements such as product protection, process support, smooth machinability and simplified user experience. The material and its grade support the sterilization process expected by the product and also maintain the quality of the product for up to two years of shelf life.
CRTESS caps for Plastic and Aluminum Containers
Company: Mullackal Polymers
Country: India
Category: Packaging Materials and Components
The word CRTESS stands for chemical-resistant tamper evident self-sealing cap. It replaces the legacy sealing solution in the market such as using inner plugs and induction sealing or PE Foam wads. The heart of the cap is the innovative in-built sealing layer, which is designed to provide a 3-dimensional seal. It seals the top neck of the bottle and its inner neck, thereby increasing the sealing area by 60%. The materials used are selected to ensure the cap is 100% recyclable under the single polymer waste stream with simple mechanical recycling without any sorting or further treatment.
Microwavable POP BOX
Company: ITC, Zea Maize
Country: India
Category: Food
An innovative packaging developed for consumers to enjoy hot & fresh popcorn straight from the box. The pull & pop microwavable packaging solution works as a pop box delivering consumers a rich & flavorful experience. The pack works in three steps with the consumer starting the ‘first step of tearing the two handles of the pack.’ The second step involves pulling both the handles to completely expand the box.’The ‘third step is putting the box in the microwave oven’. This pack is available in a non-collapsible Pop Box. These packs have been printed & converted in a BRCGS-certified packaging factory, powered by green energy generated from windmills & solar renewable resources.
NOMINEE GOLD
Company: PI INDUSTRIES
Country: India
Category: Packaging Materials and Components
The container has two tamper-evident features that provide the end user with readily observable indications to distinguish between when the container has previously been opened for normal use and when the container has been potentially exposed to any tampering. The product comprises a first frangible strip that needs to be torn and pulled out of the cap to rotate and open up as a first tamper-evident feature. The pulling out of the strip reveals a second strip having a red-colored window — indicating that the cap has been opened.
Independence Day Pack- Freedom from Plastics
Company: ITC, Maharani Dall Mill
Country: India
Category: Food
An eco-friendly packaging material free from plastics. Packaged using 100% high-strength paper and biodegradable sealant technology. The brown shade along with the roughness of the paper provides a very natural finish to the packaging and design communication is made in a way of minimalistic resource utilization approach. This paper package goes the extra mile to transform the dal segment packaging into a re-pulpable and plastic-free format.
Transparent barrier snack packs
Company: Huhtamaki India
Country: India
Category: Food
The transparent barrier PE-based pouch addresses visibility challenges of the highly competitive and
cluttered segment of snacks. The barrier PE solution offers enhanced barrier performance compared with existing transparent barrier alternatives, given equal film thicknesses (offers MVTR and OTR less than 1 in tropical conditions) Helps transit from 3 ply to 2 ply structures with no machine modifications. Provides transparent and differentiated aesthetics to capture shoppers’ attention.
