Placon Steps into 2021 with WorldStar Award
Placon has been announced as WorldStar award winner in the medical and pharmaceutical category for the second consecutive year.
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Jan 20th, 2021
Placon has been announced as WorldStar award winner in the medical and pharmaceutical category for the second consecutive year. This year the award-winning packaging design was the Placon Custom Medical Packaging solution. The WorldStar awards are an annual award given by the World Packaging Organization and are the pre-eminent international award in packaging. WorldStar illustrates the continuous advancement of packaging design and technology to create a standard of packaging excellence.
Pierre Pienaar sets the goals for his three year term as President of World Packaging Organization
Elected in May this year, during Interpack, the Australian Pierre Pienaar has announced his goals as the new President of WPO during the Board Meeting of 2017, held in Brazil in the first week of November. “We cannot ignore that some countries still face the extreme inequality of income between professionals and the masses being the biggest contributor toward the low GDP. Having this in mind, we need to contemplate how to reduce food wastage through the packaging industry.
Countries like Brazil and South Africa, for example, have the infrastructure, the money, the brains and certainly the need to feed the masses and yet millions go hungry. Packaging alone cannot fix this problem. However, before we consider any packaging design, material, innovative products, technological advancements, responsible, sustainable, reusable, environmentally-friendly packaging, we MUST understand and ap