DuPont’s annual Awards for Packaging Innovation has selected Curwood’s FreshCase packaging technology for meat as this year's diamond winner, as the solution addresses the effort to help ensure food maintains its nutritional value and freshness.
According to DuPont, FreshCase vacuum package for red meat maintains the meat's appetizing color through a found-in-nature additive in the contact layer of the barrier package. Its packaging also extends shelf life ten times longer than store-wrapped meat..
Gold winners include redesigned packaging for Pepperidge Farm's Deli Flats, Goldfish sandwich bread, AirOPack, a new aerosol dispenser that reduces the use of propellants, among others.
Smart Packaging Systems' Cube reusable packaging shipping system and Grupo Pão de Açúcar, paperboard manufacturer Papirus developed Ciclo Verde Taeq, a closed-loop recycling system also bagged gold awards.
The silver winners include Kraft YES Pack by Kraft Foods, electro conductive packaging by Mutsumi Chemical Industry, new bottle design by Kraft Foods, Project Galvanise for Ponds Talcum Powder by Hindustan Unilever, Formpack Dessiflex Plus by Amcor Flexibles, to name a few.
The Sulhwasoo Dahamsul cream jar by AmorePacific, Weight Watchers Smart Ones 'Eco-Friendly Tray' for Frozen Entrees by H J Heinz; Tide PODS liquid unit dose laundry detergent by The Procter and Gamble Company (P&G); matte surface and high-definition flexo print by Mondi Coatings & Consumer Packaging and InCycle CPET Tray and cold party cup by MicroGREEN Polymers also bagged the silver award.
