Amcor Rigid Plastics Wins WorldStar 2016 Packaging Award for PepsiCo-Lipton Tea Hot-Fill PET Bottle
Amcor Rigid Plastics, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of rigid plastic packaging for food, beverage, spirits, personal/home care and healthcare industries, has been honored by the WorldStar 2016 Packaging Awards Competition, the global packaging industry’s most prestigious award competition sponsored by the World Packaging Organization (WPO). Amcor captured a packaging award for the development of an ultra-lightweight, hot-fill polyethylene terephthalate (PET) container designed exclusively for PepsiCo-Lipton’s tea drink brand in Central America.
The WorldStar Packaging Competition is one of the major events of the World Packaging Organization (WPO) and is the pre-eminent international award in packaging. WorldStar recognizes the continual advancement of the state of packaging design and technology and creates a living standard of international packaging excellence from which others may learn. Winners for the 2016 awards were selected by representatives from 19 packaging associations — members of WPO — who judged 293 packaging entries from 35 countries.