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News Release from: Emap Maclaren Polymer Group
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 19 July 2006
Awards to encourage sustainable
packaging
The first Global Bioplastics Awards will be held in conjunction with the eighth annual Bioplastics conference.
Interest in bioplastics is growing fast This innovative sector of the plastics industy holds great potential for the future, but its achievements to date are not so widely recognised
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 28 Sep 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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The first Global Bioplastics Awards are designed to put this right, providing a platform to showcase the innovations, people, processors and end-users driving this market forward.
Running alongside the eighth annual Bioplastics conference - the longest established global meeting point for the Bioplastics industry - the Global Bioplastics Awards dinner takes place on the evening of 6th December 2006 in Frankfurt, Germany.
Linking the Awards with this market leading conference will ensure the awards dinner brings together bioplastics researchers, materials producers, bioplastics processors, retailers and brand owners.
The Bioplastics Awards have the support of retailers and material producers alike in its aim of helping development of markets and applications for bioplastics.
Stuart Lendrum, Print and Packaging Manager at UK retailer Sainsbury's Supermarkets, says: "Sainsbury's is committed to the development of sustainable packaging technologies".
"The Bioplastics Awards is a great way of highlighting achievement made in this direction and will encourage companies at all levels of the supply chain to enter".
And German materials group BIOP Biopolymer Technolgies, which has just announced a major expansion of its Schwarzheide bioplastics production unit, has given its support to the event by sponsoring the prestigous Bioplastics Retailer of the Year category.
The Bioplastics Awards and Bioplastics conference are both organised by pan-European plastics magazine, European Plastics News, which is also one of the continent's biggest plastics conference organisers.
"The Bioplastics conference is already the global meeting point for the bioplastics industry".
"By integrating the Bioplastics Awards into this world-leading conference we will connect the supply side of the industry with its existing and future customers in a way no other event can", says European Plastics News Editor and Conference Manager Chris Smith.
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