Finalists: Pro Carton ECMA and Young Designers Award

The Pro Carton ECMA Award is widely supported: in 2014, more companies participated than ever before, and at 120 entries, this is the second highest number of entries in the history of the competition. The award ceremony for both Awards is a premiere this year: the winners will receive their awards at the first joint congress of ECMA and Pro Carton in festive surroundings – on 18th September at the Award Gala in Sorrento (Italy). The professional work of the judges, covering all aspects of the supply chain, remains a solid foundation of the Awards: Satkar Gidda (chairman of the jury) on behalf of design, Stan Akkermans (Mars) and Martin Luh (Nestlé) for the brands, Marco Atzberger (EHI Retail Institute) from the perspective of the retail trade, and our special advisor of the jury Peter Klein Sprokkelhorst, as always, focused on the technical intricacies of the entered concepts. Geert Verlinden, a specialist in the field of innovation at one of Europe's leading packaging converters, Van Genechten - joined the jury for the Pro Carton Young Designers Award. The jury was delighted by the high number of excellent (and successful!) solutions. The participants had placed great value on providing coherent overall concepts for products, packaging and marketing. New approaches were apparent in terms of handling: more and more packaging is being filled in-store and this needs to be addressed. Portioning and presentation of the contents are adapted to the consumer situation ("ToGo", gift, tasting with friends …). PRO CARTON ECMA AWARD

The International Pro Carton Design Award honours new, as yet not realised ideas in cartonboard applications from across Europe and the competition is open to students. The objective of the competition is to discover as yet unrealised cartonboard solutions and design ideas and to present these to the public. Apple & Juice: Alisa Feldhofer "Mime": Kalina Hristova, Simon Kallus, Roman Plaßmann, Simon Zimpfer Save a bug: Marie-Sophie Fischer The Penguin: Magdalena Witkowicz The Scroll: Miriam Derler Winebadge: Reinhart Glöckl [gallery link="file" ids="https://www.procarton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/021b.jpg|Apple & Juice: Alisa Feldhofer,https://www.procarton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/041_neu.jpg|"Mime": Kalina Hristova, Simon Kallus, Roman Plaßmann, Simon Zimpfer,https://www.procarton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/030c_neu.jpg|Save a bug: Marie-Sophie Fischer,https://www.procarton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/016b.jpg|The Penguin: Magdalena Witkowicz,https://www.procarton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/015c.jpg|The Scroll: Miriam Derler,https://www.procarton.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/026b.jpg|Winebadge: Reinhart Glöckl"] Tell us your personal favourites of the Pro Carton ECMA Award: an E-mail to mcewen@procarton.com is all that is required. Three winner cartons with contents will be drawn among all those who tipped a winner! After 18. September the finalists and award winners will be documented on the website of the Pro Carton/ECMA Awards (www.procartonecmaaward.com): with short videos of the jury's deliberations for each category and with print-ready images and the judges' comments and the success stories.

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