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Driving Innovation for a Better Packaging Future: Our 2025 Award Achievements
Driving Innovation for a Better Packaging Future: Our 2025 Award Achievements
December 15, 2025
Being recognized this year with multiple product innovation awards is a welcome acknowledgement of our commitment to a better packaging future. At the heart of every innovation is our goal to create solutions that are not only more circular - reducing waste and maximizing recyclability - but also more functional for our partners, and more convenient for consumers. By replacing traditional formats with paperboard alternatives, we've delivered packaging that enhances performance, protection, shelf appeal, and safety while minimizing environmental impact.
These recognitions are the fruits of collaborative innovation - working closely with customers, suppliers, and industry partners to push boundaries and deliver meaningful change. Together, we're shaping packaging that meets today's needs and anticipates tomorrow's challenges.
Carlos Carrillo Lugo, vice president, global innovation at Graphic Packaging, said,
"Innovation is not just about creating new packaging - it's about solving real challenges for our customers and their consumers while protecting the planet. These awards validate our commitment to designing better packaging; solutions that are more circular, more functional, and more convenient than the alternatives they replace. And none of this would be possible without the collaborative spirit that drives our teams and customers every day. My thanks go out to them."
Celebrating Our Success
The following awards showcase how these principles have come to life through packaging solutions that set new benchmarks for our industry.
WorldStar Awards
Hosted by the World Packaging Organization, these awards honor top achievers in the packaging industry, as entrants must first win a recognized national award to qualify for entry.
PPC Awards
Hosted by the Paperboard Packaging Council, the competition has recognized innovation in paperboard packaging for more than eight decades. This year's judging criteria emphasized shelf appeal, user experience, functionality, and technical precision, evaluating paperboard packaging as both an art and a science.
PAC Global Awards
Judged by a panel of international brand, design, and packaging experts from around the globe, these coveted awards recognize outstanding achievements in cutting-edge packaging innovations and design excellence.
European Carton Excellence Awards
Hosted by Pro Carton and the European Carton Makers Association (ECMA), this competition highlights the most innovative paperboard packaging designs in Europe, spanning categories such as food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.
World Food Innovation Awards
The World Food Innovation Awards bring together the creative minds and the most innovative products in the food industry.
World Beverage Innovation Awards
From pioneering production technology to revolutionary sustainable packaging, the World Beverage Innovation Awards spotlight the companies and individuals who are redefining the way we drink.
AmeriStar Awards
The Ameristar awards, hosted by the Institute of Packaging Professionals (IOPP), celebrate the very best in design innovation from around the globe and invite packaging teams to put their creativity in the spotlight.
Dieline Awards
The Dieline awards celebrate the very best in consumer packaging design.
Environmental Packaging Awards
The Environmental Packaging Awards 2025 bring together the most innovative minds and impactful projects in sustainable packaging.
4evergreen Alliance Circularity Success Stories
Organized by the 4evergreen alliance, a cross-industry alliance dedicated to advancing circularity in fiber-based packaging, these awards honor projects that turn circular design principles into real-world impact.
Here's a detailed list of 2025 product innovation awards:
WorldStar Awards
- Morrisons pressed board vacuum skin packaging (VSP) trays: Winner, Food
- Mathys medical hip & knee implant packaging: Winner, Medical and Pharmaceutical
World Food Innovation Awards
- Morrisons pressed board vacuum skin packaging (VSP) trays: Winner, Best Packaging Design
World Beverage Innovation Awards
- Get More Vits EnviroClip™ Beam: Winner, Best Packaging Design
PAC Global Awards
- PepsiCo EnviroClip™ Bottles multipack: Best in Class, Sustainable Package Design
- Pilgrim's Europe PaperLite tray: Best in Class, Package Innovation Design
Dieline Awards
- Nestlé Australia Quality Street tub: Winner, Sustainable Packaging
Packaging News Environmental Packaging Awards
- PaperSeal™ Shape tray for Pilgrim's Europe and Sainsbury's: Gold Award, Chilled/Frozen Food
- ProducePack™ Punnet tray: Silver Award, Fresh Fruit and Vegetables
AmeriStar Awards
- PaperSeal Shape tray for Pilgrim's Europe and Sainsbury's: Winner, Sustainable Packaging
- ProducePack Punnet tray: Winner, Sustainable Packaging
- Mathys AG medical hip and knee implant packaging: Winner, Drug & Pharmaceutical
- Mother Parkers and Target Boardio™ paperboard canister: Winner, Shelf-Stable Food
European Carton Excellence Awards
- AB InBev Leffe beer multipack: Innovation Award
- Mathys AG medical hip and knee implant packaging: Gold Award, Pharma/Healthcare
Paperboard Packaging Council Awards
- Mathys AG medical hip and knee implant packaging: Richard DePaul Award for Creative Design & Converting
- Mother Parkers and Target Boardio paperboard canister: Gold Award, Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability
- PaperSeal Shape tray for Pilgrim's Europe and Sainsbury's: Gold Award, Outstanding Achievement in Sustainability
- Bonne Maman holiday Advent calendar: Gold Award, Outstanding Achievement in Packaging
- Betty Crocker Bridgerton Baking Kits: Gold Award, Outstanding Achievement in Packaging
- pladis Global McVitie's Victoria Chocolate Creations: Gold Award, Outstanding Achievement in Innovation
- M&S Food PaperSeal Cook tray: Excellence Award in Sustainability
- M&S Food PaperSeal Cook tray: Excellence Award in Innovation
- AB InBev Leffe beer multipack: Excellence Award
QSR/FPI Foodservice Packaging Awards
- American Dairy Queen Corporation 2-cell drink insert: Innovation in Convenience Award
4evergreen Alliance Circularity Success Stories
ProducePack Punnet tray: Fibre-Based Packaging Products Designed for Circularity Award
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