The 11 winners of the 2018 ALL4PACK Paris Innovation Awards

The Pack Experts Committee of the international trade show ALL4PACK Paris convened on Tuesday 6 November to designate the winners of the “2018 Innovation Awards”. These innovations and new solutions will be showcased by “the marketplace for success in Packaging, Processing, Printing & Handling” during the exhibition and in a new venue, the Creative Lounge in hall 7, along with the Committee’s special Award made to a start-up and its most innovative solution.

Thirty-three products were selected by international journalists from among more than 300 new products declared by exhibitors. This official selection was then discussed at length by the Pack Experts Committee. At the end of this process, the 11 award-winning products in four categories are proof that packaging is deeply reshaping the supply chain.

Indeed, ALL4PACK Paris 2018 plays host to packaging which is both digitalised and sustainable. Sustainable, because one merely needs to point to new materials made from natural resources such as food industry by- products, biodegradable materials offering technical performances on a par with fossil fuel origin materials, or the ratio of recycled material incorporated in packaging. And digitalised, because machines and equipment for packing, packaging and intralogistics are no longer simply automated and flexible, but also intelligent, modular and interconnected. The digital transformation of packaging is underway, a consequence of today’s digital era in which computing tools rule the waves and are clear for all to see: a reality which is not just virtual.

The winners:

Come and attend the prize ceremony of the ALL4PACK 2018 Innovation Awards on Monday 26 November on ALL4PACK Live, the lecture area in hall 7 at 12.15pm. The awards will be presented by members of the ALL4PACK Paris Pack Experts Committee.*

^{*Headed by international packaging Expert Annette FREIDINGER-LEGAY, the membership of this think tank comprises: Frédéric Beltoise, MADE.COM; Sophie Bonnier, CITEO; Philippe Bonningue, L’OREAL; Karima Boukouna, PHILIPS Health Systems France; Bruno Garnier, Groupe CARREFOUR; Guillaume Lebert, PROCTER & GAMBLE; Françoise Lochet, LABORATOIRES EXPANSCIENCE; Corinne Mercadie, AMC - Groupe CASINO; David Ozenne, CHARAL; David Petit, HERMES; Jean-Luc Poirier, MARS PETCARE FRANCE and Arnaud Rolland, COCA COLA ENTREPRISE.}