IoPP selects Packaging Summit for AmeriStar Awards

The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) has selected the Packaging Summit as the new home for the organization’s prestigious AmeriStar Package Awards Reception.   

According to Lawrence Dull, CPP, IoPP President, the Packaging Summit provides the ideal place to honor the AmeriStar winners and is essential to the competition’s ongoing success.

‘Not only does winning an AmeriStar have global impact, it recognizes both the package and the individuals for bringing it into the marketplace,’ said Dull. ‘Because IoPP’s AmeriStar honors the best in packaging – including container and material usage, the actual packaging processes and services utilized for the development of packages, and how package concepts are developed, presented and used in the marketplace – the Packaging Summit emphasizes all the elements that make a package an AmeriStar winner. It’s no wonder this type of recognition is why packagers covet the AmeriStar Award. As an organization, we feel the Packaging Summit is a natural – the perfect venue for such an esteemed awards program.’

Packaging Summit 2006 is scheduled for May 16-18, 2006 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Illinois, and the 2005 AmeriStar award winners will be displayed exclusively in the Packaging Summit Hall of Packaging Excellence so attendees can see the award winning packages up close.

Stephen Krogulski, business development manager, Packaging Summit, said,
‘The prestigious IoPP AmeriStar Awards program is an important addition to this event. We are thrilled that IoPP has recognized that the Packaging Summit’s focus on containers, materials and services make it the best venue to showcase its award winners.’