AmeriStar 2024 packaging award winners announced!

Category: Beverage (non-alcoholic)

Product: Cristalia Premium Water Package with Integrated Handle

Company: BottleOne

The PET bottle with integrated handle offers crystal-clear transparency, enhanced shelf impact and increased labeling options.

This mono-material PET packaging is recyclable and incorporates 50% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content, promoting sustainability.

The innovative design also facilitates production speed up of 5,000 bottles per hour, reduces labor and eliminates the need for corrugated boxes, offering cost-effective and efficient operations.

Category: Cosmetics

Product: Double Wall Refillable High PCR Pack

Company: Murad & Toly

The packaging uses 65% PCR plastics, excluding the pump and overcap. The refill cartridge, made entirely of polyolefins (PE and PP), incorporates 85% PCR content, and the EPT outer bottle contains 70% PCR.

With refilling option, this sustainable approach significantly reduces plastic usage by 80% with each refill compared to a full primary pack.

Category: Design excellence

Product: Will Perform Epsom Salt Shower Stick

Company: VIVA Healthcare Packaging

The packaging features in-mold labeling technology, creating a striking visual appeal with transparent polypropylene (PP) substrate and deep pink-colored recycled PP.

Category: Drug & Pharmaceutical

Product: SnapSlide Rx

Company: SnapSlide, LLC

This patented packaging has no torque and features child-resistant cap with sliding, two-step opening mechanism. This enables single-handed operation while maintaining safety standards.

The packaging can integrate seamlessly into existing pharmaceutical packaging machinery, minimizing conversion costs and disruptions.

Category: Food (refrigerated)

Product: Morrisons VSP Trays

Company: Graphic Packaging International

This packaging features an all-over photographic print, a world first for pressed board trays, providing branding opportunities inside and outside the tray.

It has a barrier-lined recyclable bleached carton board, ensuring optimal print quality and product protection. The trays are lined with a thin barrier film, creating a 90% fiber hybrid solution, and are sealed with a skin-lidding film.

Category: Medical device

Product: Quick Pick & Carry Hospital Box-Style Pouch

Company: Amcor & Bayer Healthcare

The pouch reduces bulkiness compared to traditional rigid tray with a peelable lid. It also features a custom carry handle and ample printable space for product information, making it user-friendly and informative.

Category: Sustainable packaging

Product: Centrum 100% rPET Bottle

Company: Haleon

The bottle shifts from virgin petroleum-based PET to 100% post-consumer recycled PET, reducing use of fossil fuel resources and carbon footprint. By adopting rPET, the packaging has reduced virgin plastic consumption by 646 metric tons.