Alufoil Trophy 2017 open for entries

Each year the Alufoil Trophy competition offers the opportunity for companies to showcase the very best and latest aluminum foil and closure applications and ideas. Alufoil Trophy is widely regarded as the most prestigious award in the sector and offers packaging designers, brand owners, foil rollers, foil converters, foil container manufacturers, closure manufacturers, household foil manufacturers, retailers, industrial solution providers, as well as interested consumers and consumer groups or associations, the chance to demonstrate their very latest ideas and products. It is also possible to combine entries from any of these disciplines.

Categories cover every aspect of aluminum foil and closures use. Applications include packaging, construction and automotive, as well as industrial and decorative applications:

• Marketing and Design, where entrants should deliver real improvements to graphic and structural packaging design, ergonomics and ideas that lead to greater shelf appeal at point-of-sale, as well as industrial design applications;

• Consumer Convenience, with entrants answering calls for improved technical performance that provide real benefits to the consumer;

• Resource Efficiency, where developments should provide real benefits and demonstrate environmental and commercial advantages whether in consumer or industrial applications.

• Product Protection, with examples delivering products safely and hygienically;

• Technical Innovation, showcasing the development of innovative ideas to provide benefits for the brand owner, retailer, consumer and industrial user through the performance of a material, a manufacturing method or conversion process.

Cédric Rauhaus, EAFA communications manager, said: ‘The competition brings out the best in aluminum foil innovation, and we expect a high level of interest this year.’

Winners in the Alufoil Trophy 2016 competition included Constantia Flexibles, Amcor Flexibles and Huhtamaki Flexible Packaging. Read more about this year’s competition and winners here.

The Global Aluminium Foil Roller Initiative (GLAFRI) has also launched a Chinese version of the Alufoil Trophy competition, as reported here.

More details and applications forms are available on www.alufoil.org.

EAFA is the international body representing companies engaged in the rolling and rewinding of alufoil and in the manufacture of aluminum closures, alufoil semi-rigid containers and of all kind of flexible packaging. Its more than 100 members include companies in Western, Central and Eastern Europe.