Plastics Industry Awards Finalists Announced Ahead of Big Band Night in September
The shortlist for the 2018 Plastics Industry Awards (PIAs) has been published. Winners will be announced at a glittering big band themed gala evening on Friday 28th September at the London Hilton on Park Lane.
Now in their 18th year, the Plastics Industry Awards comprise 15 categories covering product design, innovation, recycling, manufacturing, training and environmental performance. The PIAs highlight and recognise the best that the innovative UK plastics industry has to offer. This year’s black tie event is expected to attract representatives from across the plastics design and manufacturing sector including product designers, plastics processors, OEM manufacturers, supplier companies, consultants and trainees.
Garçon Wines’ rPET Flat Profile Wine Bottle is shortlisted for both Consumer Product Design of the Year and Best Recycled Plastic Product. Coca-Cola European Partners is one of six companies shortlisted in the Best Environmental or Energy Efficiency Programme category.
Personal contributions are an important part of the success of the UK plastics industry, a fact reflected by the winners of several different awards every year. Four budding designers have been shortlisted for Young Designer of the Year, the winner of which will receive £1,000 prize courtesy of sponsor Motan Colortronic. Six students have also made it through as finalists for the Apprentice of the Year with the winner due to collect £500 donated by the PMMDA. A Personal Contribution to the Plastics Industry award will also be announced on the night.
Matt Barber, sales and events director at Crain Communications, which organises the PIAs and publishes Plastics News Europe, said: “Innovation in plastic product design and manufacturing is essential to the sustainable use of plastics to improve all our lives. The depth and breadth of entries we received across all categories for the Plastics Industry Awards this year reflect the vigorous health and buoyant prospects of the industry in UK and Ireland.”
Table bookings for the gala dinner and awards ceremony are now available. Tickets include a champagne reception, four-course dinner, celebrity awards presentation and after-show entertainment.
Sponsors of the Plastics Industry Awards 2018 include Engel UK, Distrupol, Hasco, Meusburger, Motan Colortonic, RJG Technologies, Plastech Solutions and PlastikCity. The awards also enjoy the support of industry associations including the British Plastics Federation, British Industrial Design Association, the Polymer Training & Innovation Centre, the Society of Plastics Engineers, RECOUP, GTMA and PMMDA.
For more information about the Plastics Industry Awards, visit: www.plasticsawards.com
Plastics Industry Awards 2018 Finalists:
Consumer Product Design of the Year
Westland Even-Flo Container by RPC Group
The FlipPad by FutureNova
Roof a Rack by Big Bear Plastic Products
100% recycled PET flat wine bottle by Garcon Wines
Secure Flip Sports Closure by RPC Group
Industrial Product Design of the Year
Multi-Channel Washroom Control System by Hillside Design
Quanta Dialysis Technologies by Smallfry Industrial Design and Innovation Strategy
Best Recycled Plastic Product of the Year
Marmax Products – Rain Garden
RPC M&H Plastics – Garçon Wines’ rPET Flat Profile Wine Bottle
Straight Manufacturing- Triple Stack Sytsem
Bloom in Box – Bloomie Floristry Box
Young Designer of the Year
Sam Gutheridge, Brunel University
Henry Moorman, Loughborough University
Samuel Wyatt, University of Hertfordshire
Jessica Gower, Jessica Mae Studio
Apprentice of the Year
Luke Peters, Plastek UK
Samuel Blackwood, Faulkner Moulds
Thomas Vardy, RPC Superfos
Maria Iglesias Lopez, Broanmain Plastics
Tyler Abraham, Wittman Battenfeld
Kayleigh Bullman, Advanced Plastics
Unsung Hero
James Goddard, TH Plastics
Tom Osborne, Andel Plastics
Derek Bennett, Plastek UK
Paul Hill, Plastek UK
Paul Southam, Premier Moulding Machinery
Best Training & Development Programme of the Year
TH Plastics
Plastek UK
Coveris Rigid
Rosti Automotive Larkhall
Mergon International
Trend Technologies
Best Technology Application of the Year
TH Plastics
Thingtrax
Plastek UK
Polymer Compounders
OGM
Motan Colortronic
Rosti Automotive Larkhall
Best Environmental or Energy Efficiency Programme of the Year
Newton Waterproofing Systems
Coca-Cola European Partners
RPC bpi protec
Wittmann Battenfeld
MGB Plastics
A. Schulman Inc
Best Business Initiative of the Year
RJG Technologies
Andel Plastics
Plastek UK
Aquapurge
MGB Plastics and Straight Manufacturing
Rosti Automotive Larkhall
Synthotec Group
PlastikCity
Processor of the Year
Plastek UK
Mergon International
Rosti Automotive Larkhall
Advanced Plastics
Trend Technologies
Supplier Partnership – Ancillary Machinery
IsoCool
TH Plastics
Hi Tech Automation
Motan Colortronic
Piovan
Supplier Partnership – Materials
Matrix Plastics
Distrupol
Polymer Compounders
Supplier Partnership – Prime Machinery
Engel UK
UK Extrusion
FANUC UK
Wittmann Battenfeld UK
Supplier Partnership – Toolmaker
Plastech Solutions
Faulkner Moulds
