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2021-09-06
25th European Carton Excellence Award Winners
Since its inception in 1997, the European Carton Excellence Award has been one of the most important and prestigious packaging design prizes in Europe honouring striking, future-oriented, fibre-based packaging concepts.
2021-09-06
Pro Carton Young Designers Award: record number of entries yet again!
We received over 640 entries for the Pro Carton Young Designers Award this year and, for the first time, more than 100 universities were represented. In addition, under the umbrella of the Pro Carton award, ten countries are also giving out national prizes underlining the wide appeal of the competition.
2021-09-06
Pro Carton Student Video Award: overwhelming!
The Pro Carton Student Video Award challenges students to create a short, imaginative video that explores the advantages of using cartons or cartonboard. In its second year, Pro Carton received more than twice the number of entries compared to its inaugural year coming from students from 38 universities across 17 European countries.
2021-08-16
Kellogg's to roll out accessible cereal boxes
Following a successful trial, Kellogg's is permanently implementing a new "world-first" technology that enables consumers with sight loss to playback on-pack information via a smartphone.
2021-08-09
Packaging Innovations For The Disabled
As we marvel at the athletes in the Paralympics, Two Sides have been taking a look at the latest packaging innovations designed for the disabled.
2021-08-01
Register for the 2021 Carton Awards E-vent
Pro Carton and ECMA are delighted to invite you to The 2021 Carton Awards E-vent on Monday 6th September 2021. Once again, the industry awards will be presented online in a gala presentation.
2021-07-06
Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2021 - vote now!
Public voting for the Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2021 is now open!
2021-05-13
European Carton Excellence Anniversary Award:
Hall of Fame
Another addition to our 25th anniversary celebration of the European Carton Excellence Award is the Hall of Fame which recognises all the winners since the competition began in 1997.
2021-04-28
European Carton Excellence Anniversary Award: Carton Excellence Cup
The 25th anniversary of the European Carton Excellence Award will be a very special year for the whole of the carton industry. We have already told you a little about some commemorative awards we have planned but for the very first time we will be awarding ...
2021-04-14
European Carton Excellence Anniversary Awards
A number of surprises are planned to mark the 25th anniversary of the European Carton Excellence Award, highlighting the successful journey from its inception in 1997 as the Pro Carton ECMA Award to becoming Europe's most prestigious award for cartonboard packaging.
2021-03-25
European Carton Excellence Award: It's the big anniversary year!
This year, the European Carton Excellence Award, Europe's most prestigious award for cartonboard packaging, celebrates its 25th anniversary.
2021-01-27
European Carton Excellence Award 2021: Let’s Start Now!
We’re launching this year’s European Carton Excellence Award (ECEA) a little bit earlier than usual to give you maximum time to prepare your entries. All partners of the supply chain are welcome to participate. Closing date is 28th May 2021.
2020-12-17
Call for entries: Pro Carton Student Video Award 2021
We are delighted to announce the second year of our international Pro Carton Student Video Award.
2020-12-16
Pro Carton Awards: the road to success
Pro Carton's three major awards competitions - the Pro Carton Young Designers Award (#pcyda), the new Pro Carton Student Video Award and the European Carton Excellence Award for packaging professionals - have once again proved to be a tremendous success in 2020.
2020-12-14
Student design competition open for entries: Pro Carton Young Designers Award 2021
Submissions for the 2021 Pro Carton Young Designers Award are now open and run right through until mid-May 2021. Teachers can plan the award into the curriculum for this academic year.
2020-10-15
The E-vent – in bite size chunks!
For those that might have missed it, or those that want to see it again, the 2020 Carton E-vent and Awards is now available to view in discrete sections on the Pro Carton website.
2020-10-15
European Carton Excellence Award Winners
Even in these difficult circumstances, the number and quality of entries for the European Carton Excellence Award was again very high.
2020-10-15
Pro Carton crowns the young designers of tomorrow
Despite the global pandemic, 2020 proved to be another record-breaking year with over 550 cartonboard designs submitted from 25 different countries across the continent.
2020-10-15
First Pro Carton Student Video Award
The judges were so impressed with the standard of entries that they decided that there should be two winners and they would share the cash prize.
2020-10-09
What an E-vent!
Though we couldn’t meet in person, it really was a pleasure to bring the industry together once again to celebrate the fantastic work and ongoing innovation within the carton and cartonboard industry.
2020-08-18
Register for the 2020 Carton E-vent & Awards
The 2020 Carton E-vent & Awards will take place on October 7th 2020. You can register to attend now.
2020-07-27
2020 Awards - Superb response!
In this rather extraordinary year the cartonboard and carton industry has been busier than ever. As an essential provider of packaging for the supply of daily consumer goods, and with office staff largely confined to their homes, they had their work cut out.
2020-07-27
The story of the Giant Dictionary!
Working with Graphic Packaging, and using material supplied by Stora Enso, a unique dictionary was created made entirely from cartonboard.
2020-04-22
European Carton Excellence Award: new entry date and digital entry
Due to the restrictions in working practices we have made some minor changes to the rules and the closing date has been extended by two weeks to 5th June to allow you a little more time to submit your entries.
2020-03-12
Exciting new video award!
Following the huge success of the Pro Carton Young Designers Award, which has now become one of the biggest student creative design competitions in Europe, we are delighted to announce our new award scheme aimed at marketing, media studies, business and film students.
