2009 Australian Packaging Award winners

The Australian Packaging Awards are the premier awards event recognising the best of Australia’s product packaging, highlighting the outstanding achievements of the industry and opening doors all over the world.

This year, the highly anticipated PCA Best of Show was awarded to O-I Australia for its Lean+Green Light Weight Wine Bottle Range. Selected from all of the gold winning entries, the judges specifically applauded the impact of the lightweight wine bottle range for its sophisticated approach to sustainability and bringing Australian innovation to the attention of the highly competitive global wine market.

O-I has successfully reduced the weight of selected wine bottles by 18-28%, saving almost 20,000 tonnes of glass packaging/y. The flow-on effects include a 20% reduction in energy use and a carbon dioxide saving of over 11,130 tonnes per year. Equally impressive is a saving of 12% in water usage per container and overall water savings of 4720 kL per year.

From hundreds of entries, representing the entire packaging supply chain, there were 31 outstanding winners.

All of the 2009 winners can be viewed online at www.pca.org.au/results09.