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Ardagh Group Celebrates Awards Bonanza at Interpack cont. Ardagh Group, one of the world s leading rigid packaging producers, is celebrating a highly successful Interpack 2011. The company scooped a gold medal for its OptiLift easy open metal can end in the if Awards held on the show s first day. The OptiLift innovation was also accredited as one of the top-10 highlights of the Interpack Exhibition. The judges said of the OptiLift pull top: An indentation for your finger underneath the tab makes it really easy to open cans: a simple and efficient design solution. This simple design feature enormously increases the functionality of packaging without increasing costs. The company also received if Awards for the Taft embossed aerosol can, the 5L spray system and PowerClick. Continued over page... CAN 02
Ardagh Group Celebrates Awards Bonanza at Interpack cont. Later in the week, the company received two Alufoil Trophies (for Deep Drawn End and SealLite ) and two Worldstar Awards (For PowerClick and KlickSafe ). Besides the awards, Ardagh was winning many new customers for its product innovations following the integration of its glass and metal packaging businesses into a unified Ardagh Group. From its microwaveable metal trays, resealable bottle cans, Easy Peel opening systems, Top Keg Plus CO 2 pressure control system Showcasing one of Ardagh Groups awards are (L-R) Group Commercial Director Woep Möeller, Regional Sales Director Jacqueline Turlings, Managing Director-Metal David Wall and Group Research and Development Philippe Giminez. and super lightweight glass bottles, the Ardagh team had plenty to showcase. This is the first industry event where members of our glass and metal teams have worked as one family, and the team spirit alone that was generated was worth our presence at Interpack, said Woep Möeller, Ardagh Group commercial director. The quality and quantity of customers totally exceeded our expectation, he continued. Of course there was a curiosity factor to see how the new Ardagh Group was shaping up, but what really excited us was the positive interest in our new packaging solutions through all sectors, and the recognition that we have created a customerfocused organisation with an emphasis on innovation, resource optimisation and customer service at its very heart. CAN 03
Innovation New Deodorant for Dove Men Beauty Drink A Winner Dove has launched a new anti-perspirant deodorant for men. Dove Men+Care Antiperspirant Deodorants contain skin conditioning ingredients to help prevent skin dryness. These effective ingredients are matched with a powerful antiperspirant to provide 24hr sweat protection without compromising the skin. All Dove Men+Care formulations have been scientifically tested and dermatologically approved. Dove is distributed by Unilever and these deodorants are packaged in aerosol cans supplied by Ardagh Group. CAN 04 The Ocoo Beauty Drink, packaged in an aluminum bottle by Canella Wine, has won the award for Best Packaging at the 2011 Beverage Innovation Functional Drinks Awards in Washington, DC. It also took out the awards for Best Functional Drinks Brand or Business and Best Marketing Campaign. Ocoo is a light and fruity beauty enhancing drink packaged in aluminium bottles. The beauty drink, with an active ingredient complex that is proven to create radiant skin and hair, is given a striking and trendy image by the aluminium bottle. Aluminium bottles are easily chilled, 100 per cent recyclable and come in a variety of sizes, providing the perfect packaging for the Ocoo drink in complimenting the lifestyle of the consumer. Ardagh Group is the only Australian producer of aluminium bottles, at its plant in Taree, NSW.
ENVIRONMENT Focus on Sustainability Canvironment Week Wins Empac Challenge Canvironment Week was named the winner of the Empac Challenge at Empac s Metal Packaging Forum during the closing day at Interpack 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. The jury decided that the project, set up by Indian can maker Hindustan Tin Works, will raise real awareness about metal packaging and its key advantages across the globe. The Empac Challenge initiative was started in 2010, the year the metal can celebrated its 200-year anniversary. All entries had to comply with the rules and regulations of the challenge, and the jury CAN looked in detail at their usefulness (added value), realism (can it be done?), innovation (is it new?) and scalability. The jury was especially impressed by the energy and enthusiasm Canvironment Week president Atit Bhatia showed in launching and promoting the project. The Next 200 Years competition was a great way to celebrate innovations achieved with the can but, more importantly, to look at what features we can build into canned packaging in the future, said Gordon Shade, Empac CEO. We were very impressed with both the Atit Bhatia receives the Empac Challenge award. number of entries and the quality of the designs and ideas. Some of the ideas will certainly be circulated throughout our membership. We are proud the jury selected an initiative that is clearly close to the heart of Empac. 05
ENVIRONMENT Focus on Sustainability Unilever Voted Leader in Sustainability NEWS Unilever has been voted as the outright global leader in sustainability according to the latest survey findings from GlobeScan and SustainAbility. Sustainability experts from across the globe, including Australia and New Zealand, were canvassed as part of the annual SustainAbility survey that asks respondents to name the companies they consider sustainability leaders, why they think the firm is a leader in sustainable development, and which industries have done the most to advance sustainability in the past year. In a year when commitment to sustainability values was considered a bigger factor in determining leadership than in recent years, Unilever topped all competitors to emerge as the leader in sustainable development tripling its share of votes from 2010. The result follows the launch of Unilever s Sustainable Living Plan in November 2010. Unilever s Sustainable Living Plan sets out more than 50 social, economic and environmental targets to be achieved by 2020. The plan will see Unilever, whose Australian brands include Flora, Lipton, OMO and Dove, cut the environmental footprint of its products in half, sustainably source 100 per cent of its agricultural raw materials and help 1 billion people across the globe improve their health and wellbeing. The Australian and New Zealand components of the Sustainability Living Plan will be progressively implemented from this year. The SustainAbilty Survey took place in March 2011 and involved 559 sustainability experts from corporate, government, non-government, academic and research organisations across 60 countries. Ardagh reduces energy and emissions Ardagh Group is employing The company said its a raft of innovative methods strategy is informed by designed to reduce energy a dual approach of being use by 16 per cent and fully committed to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by its environmental footprint, 20 per cent across its glass while ensuring that such manufacturing sites by 2017 advances are economically (compared with 2007 levels). viable. The Ireland-based company We want to be sustainable told FoodProductionDaily. in terms of the energy com about its multi-faceted use and carbon dioxide plan to reach its eco-targets reduction but we also involving waste heat want to be economically recovery schemes, carbon sustainable, said Steffen dioxide capture technology Seehausen, environment and an industry-leading batch and sustainability manager. pre-heating process on its We always try to link the raw materials. two things. CAN 06
ENVIRONMENT Focus on Sustainability Steel Achieves a New Record in Europe APEAL (the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging) has released the latest figures that demonstrate how recycling rates of steel packaging for Europe in 2009 increased by 2 per cent to reach more than 72 per cent. This increase once again places steel far ahead of other packaging materials such as plastic, beverage cartons and glass, which demonstrate rates of 30 per cent, 34 per cent and 67 per cent respectively. Belgium is the European champion of recycling for the 9th consecutive year, with an outstanding 98 per cent recycling rate. Germany and the Netherlands follow closely behind, with figures of over 87 per cent. These countries benefit in particular from efficient national systems of kerbside collection. The past year has also seen noticeable increases in recycling rates among other European countries. Among these, Poland has achieved an increase of 20 per cent in the recycling rate of steel packaging, a substantial part of which can be attributed to the introduction of ferromagnetic sorting methods in several waste sorting facilities in 2009. Each item of recycled steel packaging saves almost twice its weight in CO 2. So the more steel is recycled, the more CO 2 emissions are reduced. Around 2.5 million tonnes of steel beverage and food packaging is recycled in Europe, which corresponds to a 49 per cent reduction of CO 2 emissions into the atmosphere. CAN 07