{"id":74605,"date":"2023-01-31T16:15:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T15:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/?p=74605"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T14:48:20","slug":"packaging-design-competition-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/verpackungen-gewinner-design-wettbewerb\/","title":{"rendered":"Recyclable packaging honoured"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The winners of Mets\u00e4 Board's Better with Less - Design Challenge have been announced. A jury of experts selected the winners from the 124 entries submitted by participants from 27 countries. First place was shared by a headphone packaging and a cardboard filling material.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The two winners share the prize money for 1st and 2nd place and each receive 6500 euros. The international Packaging design competition<\/a> \u201eBetter with Less - Design Challenge 2022-2023\u201d was organised for the third time by Mets\u00e4 Board<\/a> aligned. The aim of the competition was to develop the zero-waste packaging of the future<\/strong>. 124 participants from 27 countries submitted their creative ideas.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u201eIt was incredibly difficult to decide on a winning design from the excellent submissions. That's why the jury awarded first place twice.\u201c<\/p>

Ilkka Harju<\/strong>, jury chairman and Packaging Services Director of Mets\u00e4 Board<\/p><\/blockquote><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the case of \u201eKid's Headphones Packaging\u201c, the first-placed packaging for children's headphones, there are Consumer benefits and recyclability<\/strong> in the foreground. Thanks to an elegant design concept, the packaging is easy to open and offers the product optimum protection - an example of how simple solutions are often the best. The Packaging is easy to recycle and takes the aspect of reusability into account<\/strong>. The inner part of the packaging is suitable for storing the headphones. Both the aesthetic appearance and the purity of the cardboard material used encourage reuse.<\/p>

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Also in first place was \u201eCardboard Protecting Filler\u201c, a Cardboard filling material that protects TVs and other electronic products in transport packaging<\/strong>. A strut-like frame protects the contents of the packaging on all sides. The solution made from virgin fibre board is lightweight and stable and offers easy recyclability in the interests of the circular economy<\/strong> with minimum use of materials.<\/p>

The third prize, worth 2,000 euros, went to the \u201eRESHAPE\u201c project. Dawid Thiels' innovative packaging can be used for a wide range of products and ensures that fewer packaging formats are kept in stock<\/strong> must.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Mets\u00e4 Board also offered a prize for students in the form of an internship at the company's own Excellence Centre for board and packaging in Finland. This prize was won by Patrick Walby, who completed a Zero-waste cardboard blister packaging developed for pharmaceuticals<\/strong> had. His solution is suitable as an alternative to the plastic and aluminium solutions commonly used in the pharmaceutical sector.<\/p>

Two awards in the form of an honourable mention went to the entries \u201eTotally Bananas\u201c by Max Gubbins and \u201eF'lover\u201c by Mine Koca.<\/p>

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\n\t\t\tA recent study by Mets\u00e4 Board suggests that switching to virgin fibre paperboard could reduce the carbon footprint of cosmetics packaging by up to 50 %. The study was verified by the IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute.\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\tRead more \"\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The winners of Mets\u00e4 Board's Better with Less - Design Challenge have been announced. First place is shared by two packaging products.\u00a0","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74606,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","rank_math_description":"Die Gewinner der Better with Less - Design Challenge von Mets\u00e4 Board stehen fest. Den ersten Platz teilen sich gleich zwei Verpackungen.\u00a0","rank_math_focus_keyword":"verpackung,Design challenge,mets\u00e4 board","rank_math_title":"","csco_display_header_overlay":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[46,58699,31,32,1487,59830],"class_list":{"0":"post-74605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-marketing-und-design","8":"tag-marketing-und-design","9":"tag-metsae-board","10":"tag-nachhaltigkeit-und-green-packaging","11":"tag-packmittel-und-packstoffe","12":"tag-papier-pappe-karton","13":"tag-wettbewerb","14":"cs-entry","15":"cs-video-wrap"},"acf":[],"vimeo_video":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/packaging-journal.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}