Awards

2010 New Zealand Plastic Industry Design Award Winners Announced

This year’s winners of the 2010 Plastics Industry Biennial Design Awards were announced at a Gala Dinner held at the Ellerslie Convention Centre in Auckland on Friday (8th October). Peter Chrisp, the new CEO of New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) was in attendance to present this year’s awards, with Phil Gifford – a well known journalist, television personality as MC.

The 2010 awards attracted 37 entries, reflecting the industry’s reputation as one of New Zealand’s most innovative sectors. In total, Awards were presented on the night - 13 Bronze, 11 Silver, 9 Gold, and the Overall Supreme Award.

This years Supreme Award was won by Axiam Plastics Ltd with their Back Skin Development for the “Be” Chair, which also took out two Gold’s in the Industrial and Conventional Injection Moulding Categories. This product has undergone a classic product development process which has genuinely extended established plastics injection moulding boundaries. Not only did the product require a complex mould and processing technology, it used a sophisticated engineering plastics material in an innovative way to achieve enhanced material properties and a novel product. This was considered by the Judges to be leading edge plastics technology of international significance

Product Category Gold Award winners on the night included Alto Packaging Ltd for their Top Seal Barrier Foam Tray in the Food & Beverages Category, Millennium Plastics Ltd for their Fonterra Milk Sample Vial in the Primary Category, Talbot Technologies Ltd for their Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Icon Sleep Apnoea Device in the Consumer Products Category. Silver was the highest award in the Building category which was presented to RX Plastics Ltd for their Airtech 9000 Waste Water Treatment System.

Process Category Gold Award winners on the night included Axiam Plastics Ltd for their Recline Transom Development for the “Be” Chair. Silver was the highest award given to LinkPlas Ltd for their Sistema Twist ‘N’ Pop Wave Bottle in the Blow Moulding Category, along with a Silver to Talbot technologies for their Fisher & Paykel Icon IMD Label & GT40 IMD Label Tool in the Thermoforming Category.
Bronze was the highest award given in the Rotational Moulding Category to RX Plastics Ltd for their Airtech 9000 Waste Water Treatment System, along with Bronze in the Foams Category presented to Axiam Plastics Ltd for their Bodyfurn Cushion.

Other Category Gold Award winners on the night included Comspec Ltd for their Milk Bottle Wash Plant in the Environmental Achievement Category. Gold was awarded to EveredgeIP for their Crushpak in the Export Category, along with a Silver to Gallagher Group Ltd for their Smartfence T4100 and a Bronze to Blowmoulders Ltd for their Wire Rope Socket. Talbot Technologies Ltd were awarded Gold for their Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Icon Airbox in the Toolmaking Category.

Many of this year’s winners are for world-first products developed with leading-edge technology, despite the recent tough economic conditions.

“These Awards recognise those members who are transforming the way in which Plastics are perceived in the market”, Plastics New Zealand CEO Robin Martin said. “We congratulate all of the entrants and the winners in the 2010 Design Awards on their superb entries and look to them as drivers of this transformation, through their product and process innovation, design technology and entrepreneurial spirit that is leading the way forward”.

For a full list of this years winners please click on the link below

For a copy of this years Presentation at the Gala Evening please click on the link below

For a copy of this years Design Awards Entries Book please click on the link below

For further information please contact:

Robin Martin, CEO, Plastics New Zealand, phones: (09) 255 5662 extn. 102 (office), 021 655 098 (mobile), fax: (09) 255 5663, email: robin@plastics.org.nz

( Image: From Left to Right: Kevin Jones, Derek Cook, Melissa Cook, Peter Chrisp, CEO of NZTE, and Grant Angus)

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