Nampak wins silver DuPont award for Packaging Innovation

Nampak Plastics has been awarded the silver DuPont award for Packaging Innovation for its Infini bottle.
The DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, now in its 26th year, is an international, independently-judged competition that honours innovations in packaging design, materials, technology, processes, and service across the entire packaging value chain.

Nampak introduced Infini to the British market in 2012, as a lightweight range of high density polyethylene (HDPE) milk bottles. It has resulted in the world’s lightest 4-pint (2.27 litre) 32g bottle, which contains up to 20% less material than a standard bottle, and up to 30% recycled HDPE.

Furthermore, based on Infini being the bottle of choice, it could save the UK milk packaging industry 34,000 tonnes of plastic resin per annum, and 16,000 tonnes of carbon.

Commenting on the win, Eric Collins, managing director of Nampak Plastics, says, “Nampak Plastics is delighted to be internationally recognised by the DuPont Awards. We are currently exploring how we collaborate with new partners so that the Infini design can benefit customers in new markets and geographies outside of diary.”

More than half a billion Infini bottles have been sold, stocked in retailers including Marks & Spencer, Waitrose, Sainsbury’s, Tesco and Morrisons within the UK. Infini will also be manufactured under license for the Australian & New Zealand markets in 2014, and discussions are in progress with licensing partners in the US, European, Asian and African markets for liquid dairy and non-dairy bottle packaging applications.