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Submissions open for 2015 APPMA Industry Excellence Awards

 

The Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) has opened submissions for the 2015 APPMA Industry Excellence Awards which will be announced on March 25 at the Crown Complex Melbourne. The 2015 APPMA Industry Excellence Awards are proudly supported by Agility, Midway Metals, PKN and SMC.

According to Mark Dingley, chairman, APPMA, the biennial Industry Excellence Awards are designed to recognise innovative and outstanding packaging and processing solutions within the industry.

“Companies that enter these biennial awards are recognised for their contribution and outstanding achievements against their peers within the wider packaging industry and we encourage everyone to enter,” he said.

Awards categories include the Export Achievement Award, Design Achievement Award, Customer Partnership Award, Imported Equipment Award, Best New Product Award and the APPMA Scholarship. 

2015 EXPORT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The recipient of the Export Achievement Award will have made a worthwhile contribution to an existing or new export market. Contributions can include establishing a new market, achieving a significant increase in sales by both the supplier and the customer, identifiable by monetary gain from an export activity. It can also be any developed packaging or processing machinery sold into overseas markets which contributes to improved business outcome, efficiency, sales and profit increases.

2015 DESIGN ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

The Design Achievement Award will recognise the development of a packaging or processing line or module that results in the significant advancement of packaging and processing machinery technology by either introducing a new idea or modifying an existing principle. The design concept and implementation are weighted highly in the award decision, where better business performance must be achieved.

2015 CUSTOMER PARTNERSHIP AWARD

The Customer Partnership Award has a major emphasis on the customisation of packaging and processing machinery which is required to suit a customer’s individual needs. The winner, individual or team will be able to demonstrate that the end user has experienced increased sales, increased plant efficiency and profitability. Customer improved outcomes will form a very large element of the Award decision.

2015 IMPORTED EQUIPMENT AWARD

The Imported Equipment Award is designed to recognise the efforts of a company who promotes its overseas principal’s equipment in the Australian market, where the equipment in itself represents a high standard of excellence in every respect relevant to the industry consistent with the standard applied.

2015 BEST NEW PRODUCT AWARD

The Best New Product Award is designed to recognise the most innovative product or equipment in the packaging and processing industry that is launched in Australia for the first time during AUSPACK 2015. Key deliverables to be recognised as Best New Product includes the following criteria: the equipment or product must have proven efficiency and productivity gains, be innovative and have proven and improved cost of ownership.

2015 APPMA SCHOLARSHIP

The APPMA is seeking a packaging engineer that is looking to further their education by offering them a scholarship to enrol in the Diploma in Packaging Technology; an internationally recognised and accredited course. The Diploma in Packaging Technology is an internationally recognised qualification for those wishing to pursue a career in the packaging industry, or for those who are already in the industry and who wish to extend their knowledge and expertise.

All submissions are due no later than Friday, January 30, 2015. All companies within the packaging industry are encouraged to enter and do not need to be an APPMA member to submit an entry. To access a submission form email appma@appma.com.au

 
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