BERRY Global is celebrating a successful awards season following a raft of wins and commendations for its packaging products.
The success was led by industry appreciation for the company’s work with Abel & Cole on a refillable milk bottle for its Club Zero subscription service.
The one-litre polypropylene bottle – developed by Berry’s Innovation Team – won Reusable Pack of the Year and Resource Efficient Pack of the Year at the 2024 UK Packaging Awards.
The innovation also won Best Plastic Product Development for Recyclability or Re-Use at the Recoup Awards, and was Highly Commended for the Horners’ Bottlemakers Award and London Packaging Week’s Innovation Awards.
Club Zero refillable milk is designed to cut the carbon footprint of Abel & Cole’s single-use milk bottles in half, with Abel & Cole estimating a saving of up to 450,000 single-use plastic milk bottles annually.
Commenting on the award, the UK Packaging Awards judges said, “Really good to see a company put their head above the parapet with reusable plastic with proven lower carbon figures, rather than cowing to the masses and eliminating plastic in favour of materials which drive up CO2e. Really promising results. Great concept.”
Nor was the Abel & Cole collaboration Berry’s only acknowledgement at the UK Packaging Awards. In addition to the two wins, the company was highly commended in three categories – Best International Pack for the reusable Tritan bottle manufactured for ‘healthy hydration’ brand Aquafigure; Flexible Plastic Pack of the Year for Berry’s high-performance Entour recyclable lamination films; and Rigid Plastic Pack of the Year for the recyclable, customisable Domino bottle.
Alejandra Beltran, Berry’s EVP for innovation, research, and development, said, “The breadth of the projects being recognised highlights the scope of Berry Global’s capabilities.”
“There are solutions here representing our rigid and flexible packaging divisions, with a mix of product technologies and customer collaborations. Crucially, all of the winning or commended projects put sustainability at their heart, reinforcing Berry’s commitment to help our customers meet their environmental goals.
“With award-winning work like this, we can show how we create value by deploying superior products, enabling technologies and operational excellence to support our customers’ growth.”
