The Australian Packaging and Processing Machinery Association (APPMA) submissions are open for the 2015 APPMA Industry Excellence Awards which will be announced on 25 March at the Crown Complex Melbourne.
Awards categories include Export Achievement Award, Design Achievement Award, Customer Partnership Award, the Imported Equipment Award, Best New Product Award and the APPMA Scholarship.
Please note the submissions deadline – Friday, 30 January 2015. These are the categories:
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. The equipment or product must have proven efficiency and productivity gains, be innovative and have proven and improved cost of ownership.
Best New Product criteria and entry form here: 2015 Best New Product APPMA AUSPACK
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 applaud 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 their 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 APPMA SCHOLARSHIP
The APPMA Scholarship will be granted to a packaging engineer or student who wishes to further his or her education in the internationally recognised Diploma in Packaging Technology.
All companies within the packaging industry are encouraged to enter and you do not need to be an APPMA member to submit an entry.
Enquiries by email are welcome.
The 2015 APPMA Industry Excellence Awards are supported by Agility, Midway Metals, PKN and SMC.
