Dow Announces Judges for 2018 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation
March 29 2018 - 10:28AM
Business Wire
Panel for international competition includes 15
judges representing major brands, converters, OEMs, media, industry
organizations
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) today announced the panel of
international judges who will select the winners of the 2018 30th
Awards for Packaging Innovation. The 15 judges represent a global
perspective across the fields of design, engineering, retail,
converting and academia, from organizations including Amazon,
Bemis, Mintel and P&G.
The judges, who form the largest-ever panel for the event, will
come from around the globe to gather in Houston in late May and
share their expertise and industry insights as they review entries
for this year’s awards.
“The Packaging Innovation Awards is known for its tradition of
bringing together experts with diverse perspectives and experience
from across the globe to help judge this prestigious competition,”
said Diego Donoso, business president for Dow Packaging &
Specialty Plastics. “This year is no exception and I want to thank
this outstanding panel of judges for their engagement and interest
in evaluating entries for excellence in technology, customer
experience and responsible packaging.”
This year’s judges are:
- Gian de Belder: Principal Scientist –
Packaging R&D, P&G
- Jerry Duan: Global Logistics Packaging
R&D Director, JD.com
- Tanner Florindo: R&D Technical
Director, VALFILM
- Josu Garcia: Product Application
Manager, Ulma Packaging
- Alix Grabowski: Sr. Program Officer,
Sustainability R&D, WWF
- Chris Hartwell: AP Packaging Innovation
and Development Manager, Fonterra
- Kim Houchens: Senior Manager, Packaging
– Sustainability, Amazon
- Marianne Klimchuk: Professor, Fashion
Institute
- Qiang Lu: Vice President, R&D Asia
Pacific, Bemis
- David Luttenberger: Global Packaging
Director, MINTEL
- Patrick Poitevin: Principal Scientist -
Packaging Group, Mondelez
- Bernd Reifenhäuser: CEO, Reifenhäuser
Group
- Gisela Schulzinger: President,
Brazilian Packaging Association, ABRE
- Warren Shaw: VP Innovation,
Huhtamaki
- Tim Sykes: Chief Editor, Packaging
Europe
Submitting a nomination is free and applicants are not required
to use Dow or DuPont materials in the products they enter.
Interested parties can enter through April 12, 2018, by visiting
www.DowPackagingAwards.com. As in previous years, all of the
products in the 2018 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation must be
commercially available when they are entered. This year, applicants
can utilize a streamlined entry process with a simplified online
form to complete, submit and track entries, as well as upload
accompanying images and videos.
More information is available at www.DowPackagingAwards.com.
About Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of
DowDuPont’s Materials Science division, combines core strengths of
R&D, worldwide reach, broad product lines and industry
expertise to deliver high performing technologies for end use
markets in food packaging, personal hygiene, infrastructure,
consumer goods and transportation. Dow Packaging and Specialty
Plastics is one of the world’s largest producers of polyethylene
resins, specialty resins and adhesives, and is a leading innovator
and collaborator across the value chain on sustainable application
development and circular economy life-cycle principles for
plastics.
About Dow
The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) combines science and technology
knowledge to develop premier materials science solutions that are
essential to human progress. Dow has one of the strongest and
broadest toolkits in the industry, with robust technology, asset
integration, scale and competitive capabilities that enable it to
address complex global issues. Dow’s market-driven,
industry-leading portfolio of advanced materials, industrial
intermediates and plastics businesses deliver a broad range of
differentiated technology-based products and solutions for
customers in high-growth markets such as packaging, infrastructure
and consumer care. Dow is a subsidiary of DowDuPont (NYSE: DWDP), a
holding company comprised of Dow and DuPont with the intent to form
three strong, independent, publicly traded companies in
agriculture, materials science and specialty sectors. More
information can be found at www.dow.com.
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