Category: Award
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Symphony Environmental Awarded for Their Marketing (FREE)
Symphony Environmental USA Receives 2020 Best of Jacksonville Award. This is a free article.
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Who Will Be the Person of 2020? (FREE)
Who are the nominated for the “Person of the Year” 2020 Award? (Free Article)
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Repurposing Recyclable Cardboard Packaging
Each design was assessed on its innovation, aesthetics, functionality and how practical it would be for someone to build at home.
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Annual Innovation in Bioplastics Awards
The eight annual Innovation in Bioplastics Award presented by the PLASTICS Bioplastics Division will recognize one outstanding innovation in unique and creative applications of bioplastics materials, products or processes by a company. The judging criteria are described further below.
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The Most Sleepy Bioplastic Award
The “Award” for the most sleepy sector of the bioplastic industry goes to ….
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Fulbright Award for Bioplastic Researcher
Developing biobased products will be a focus of ARS chemist Atanu Biswas’s (right) collaborations with EMBRAPA lead scientist Roselayne Furtado as a 2020 U.S. Fulbright Scholar.
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Genomatica Brontide Wins EPA Award
Genomatica Celebrates Third EPA Award Win with Brontide™ Natural Butylene Glycol. Award recognizes groundbreaking scientific solutions to real-world environmental problems
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LyondellBasell Named Responsible Care Company of the Year
LyondellBasell Named Responsible Care® Company of the Year by the American Chemistry Council.
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Finalists Design Innovation in Plastics 2020
Six talented university students have won their way to the final of the 2020 Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition, having been asked to design a product for urban living.
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Emporia State University Award for Bioplastics
Emporia State University student Mitchell DeWalt claimed the top prize in the 2020 Emporia Entrepreneur Challenge.
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Covestro Wins Climate Hero Award
For the 5th time, UNICEPTA honours the best communicative performance of the past year with the Thought Leadership Award.
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German Government Looking for Green Talents
Striving for International Cooperation in Sustainability Research. Every year, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) hosts the prestigious Green Talents – International Forum for High Potentials in Sustainable Development to promote the international exchange of innovative green ideas from various fields of research.
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Danimer Scientific Wins Georgia Bio Golden Helix Award
Georgia Bio, the state’s life science trade association, will celebrate its Golden Helix Awards & Annual Gala on Friday, March 13th at Factory Atlanta in Chamblee. Georgia Bio is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Golden Helix Awards.
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BioBased Lid Wins UK Product Innovation Award
Huhtamaki’s Future Smart™ Duo Lid won the Product Innovation Award for front of house at the prestigious UK Foodservice Packaging Awards last Thursday.
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Kelp Bioplastics Awarded in New Zealand
Abel Goremusandu was working the graveyard shift in a Christchurch factory when he hit on an idea.
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The Dow Packaging Innovation Awards 2020
Does your package have what it takes to earn a Packaging Innovation Award? Dow is pleased to announce that once again the search for the world’s most innovative packages is on.
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Bio-Based Material of the Year 2020 – Application Call
The established innovation award “Bio-based Material of the Year” award will once again be granted to novel, innovative and trendsetting bio-based materials and products.
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Finalists for Plastics Recycling Awards Europe 2020
Winners will be announced at PRSE in Amsterdam on 26 March.
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UK Gov Starts Competition for Smart and Sustainable Plastic Packaging
UK businesses can apply for a share of up to £12 million for practical demonstrator projects in smart and sustainable plastic packaging. This funding is from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund.
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LyondellBasell Named to Fortune World Most Admired Companies
LyondellBasell, one of the largest plastics, chemicals and refining companies in the world, today announced it has been named to Fortune Magazine’s 2020 list of the “World’s Most Admired Companies.”
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NatureWorks Recognized as Top Supplier by Jamplast
Jamplast Inc., a leading prime resin distributor, awarded NatureWorks as a top supplier for 2019.
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German Biopolymer Innovation Award
The Award ceremony will take place at the “BIOPOLYMER – Processing & Molding” Congress in Halle (Saale) 2020.
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Bioplastics is Coolest Ohio State Science Story of 2019
The votes are in, the people have spoken, and it’s clear: You all care about the environment – and about coming up with an alternative to plastics – very much.
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Tipa Part of 11 Israeli Companies That Made a Mark in 2019
An outstanding year for Israel’s tech industry in 2019, with mergers and acquisitions deals rising over the previous year, successful initial public offerings of shares, and many mainstream news headlines touting groundbreaking tech from Israel.
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Irish Pupils Create Packaging From Sunflower Stem Pith
TRANSITION Year students Eoin Cottrell and Benjamin Velon, both 16, and 15-year-old Jamie O’Callaghan think that packaging is nuts.
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l’Oreal Launches Plastic-Less Packaging Competition
Are you ready to say ‘hello!’ to a beauty industry with less plastic? We are! By the end of 2020, 100% of L’Oréal’s new or renovated products will have an improved environmental or social profile.
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40 Finalists For the €100K Sustainable Industry Challenge
Following an intensive selection procedure, a couple of industrial companies, the challenge setters, together with the initiator Economic Board Groningen, selected 40 innovative companies (scale-ups) from 13 different countries and invited them to the two-day final event of the Sustainable Industry Challenge, Chemport Europe edition in the north of the Netherlands.
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Stora Enso Ice Cream Packaging Wins International Award
A fibre-based ice cream package designed by Stora Enso for the Finnish artisan ice cream manufacturer Vanhan Porvoon Jäätelötehdas has been awarded in the international WorldStar competition.
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Two Cape Fear Breweries Awarded for Bioplastics
Two breweries in the Cape Fear Region have received statewide recognition for efforts to reduce their environmental footprint.
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The Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO of 2019
ILbioeconomista has organised a vote to identify the most innovative Bioeconomy CEO of 2019. Here’s the winner…
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MetGen Wins Frost & Sullivan 2019 European Technology Innovation Award
The technologies solve the industry’s major pain points regarding the valorization of lignin, shorter technology development cycles, and customization of enzymes for different applications. Based on its recent analysis of the European industrial enzymes market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes Finland-based MetGen with the 2019 European Technology Innovation Award for its enzyme technologies, METNIN™ and ENZINE®.
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Parkside Wins Two WorldStar Awards For Their Compostable Packaging
Specialist packaging solutions provider Parkside has received a duo of WorldStar Packaging Awards in the food category, rounding off a successful year for its innovative compostable packaging range.
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The Novozymes Award 2019
Novozymes honors Professor James C. Liao for his contributions to science that can help develop fuels and chemicals from renewable resources.
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Green Dot Bioplastics Qualifies for XTC Finals
Green Dot Bioplastics is one of three regional finalists in Samsung’s Extreme Tech Challenge, a global competition aimed at discovering new technologies and innovations to solve the world’s most extreme problems.
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Award for Biodegradable Waterproof Cotton-Jute Fabric
Two researchers are to be presented with an award for developing a biodegradable cotton-jute fabric with a waterproof coating that can substitute for non-biodegradable PVC-coated polyester.
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Biocomposites Wins JEC Asia Innovation Award
In a ceremony held on 14 November in Seoul, South Korea, Jiva Materials and Eco-Technilin claimed the JEC Asia Innovation Award in the Electrical, Electronics and Appliances category, for their development of flax-based Soluboard composites.
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Innovation Award – Biocomposite of the Year 2019
The Winner of the Biocomposite of the Year 2019 Award is
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Arkema Wins The Grand Chaptal 2019
Arkema Wins Le Grand Chaptal. The Award is given by the Société d’encouragement pour l’industrie nationale. A French Award for a French Company shining on the international scene.
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Clariant Licocare Rbw Vita Receives Award for Sustainability Excellence
Clariant’s Licocare® Rbw Vita Bio-based Additives for Plastics Receives Award for Sustainability Excellence.
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Carbiolice Wins European Industrial Biotech Award
CARBIOLICE is really proud for winning the 2019 most innovative European biotech, awarded by the European association EUROPA-BIO.
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Radical Plastics Wins 500 K Award at the 76West Competition
Radical Plastics creates biodegradable plastics that address the issue of plastic pollution, while creating energy savings in applications such as mulch film used in agriculture.
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Dezeen 2019 Sustainable Design Award
This years Dezeen Awards have drawn together a coveted array of brands, designers and agencies who have worked on, and carried out, show-stopping projects over the past year.
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Win € 100 K if you can Convert Sugar Beet Sucrose into Bioplastics
Work With Suikerunie to Valorize Sucrose From Sugar Beet Into Bio-polymers to Produce Sustainable Plastics. As part of Sustainable Industry Challenge – Chemport Edition and SuikerUnie are looking for innovative solutions to convert sucrose and use it as a feedstock for biopolymers.
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Last Call to Register and Win The Biocomposite of the Year Award 2019
Will your material win the Innovation Award “Biocomposite of the Year 2019”? Just a few more days left! Register before it’s too late. It will boost your business if you win!
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Mitsubishi Chemical in DJSI
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation today announced that it has been selected for the third consecutive year as a member of the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) for inclusion in the World Index, which is the global benchmark for Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing.
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Novamont Wins Innovation Award from US Plastics Industry Association
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) Bioplastics Division today announced Novamont as the winner of the 2019 Innovation in Bioplastics Award.
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The Winners of The Cup Fund of Starbucks
12 Winners of the Cup Fund Chosen to Boost Paper Cup Recycling Across the U.k., Diverting 420 Tonnes of Waste Per Year Innovative Projects Range From City-wide Recycling Schemes to New Approaches for Vending Machines, Retail Centres, Service Stations, Offices and Universities.
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Stora Enso Wins German Packaging Award
Stora Enso’s innovative packaging design “Wool locker” has been awarded the German Packaging Award 2019 by the German Packaging Institute in the category Presentation of goods.
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Best Bioplastic Company of 2019
Who was the Champion of 2019? Who Outperformed the Industry? The Award Goes to ….
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Who Will Be The Best Bioplastics Company of 2019?
Who will win the “Best Bioplastics Company of 2019” Award? The award will be granted to the company who performed the best in the last 12 months. Here are the final champions.
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London Design Fair Presents Potato Waste Bioplastics As The Material Of The Year
Ahead of the upcoming London Design Festival in September, London Design Fair has announced it will be presenting bio-materials as the 2019 Material of the Year in an exhibition titled Second Yield.
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Kaneka Wins Japan Bioindustry Award 2019 for Seawater Biodegradable Bioplastics
The poly-hexanoate-butyrate (PHBH) copolymer is produced by Kaneka from plant oil using a recombinant strain of Cupriavidus necator at a capacity of currently 1,000 tons, with plans to increase production to 5,000 and later to 100,000 tons a year.
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Who Will Win The European Social Innovation Competition?
The European Social Innovation Competition is an initiative run by the European Commission across all European countries. The 2019 Competition is titled Challenging Plastic Waste. This competition seeks the most innovative projects, products, services, business models and collaborations that tackle plastic waste.
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Company Receives Grant By Canadian Government to Develop Biodegradable Fishing Line
This past month, the Government of Canada announced local company Plantee Bioplastics Inc. will receive a grant of $138,000 to help further the development of their biodegradable fishing line.
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Parkside Wins StarPack Awards
For 60 years, the Starpack Awards have celebrated excellence in packaging and the fantastic work being done in process development and engineering, focusing on innovation and recognition of personal as well as corporate achievement.
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World Economic Forum Names Bioplastics Company as Technology Pioneer
56 companies are named Technology Pioneers 2019 by the World Economic Forum and there’s one bioplastics company amongst them.
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Startup Makes Menstrual Pads With Hemp
Hempact, a startup created by University of Alberta students, was recently awarded $10,000 towards their mission of combating excess hemp waste in Alberta.
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Fiber-based Food Tray By Jospak Receives Wpo Best Packaging Award
The World Packaging Organization WPO has chosen the world’s best packaging of 2019. The cardboard-based food tray by Jospak Oy, a start-up from Finland, has won the WorldStar award in the Food Packaging category.
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Innovation Award, Bio-based Material of the Year 2019
The Winner of the Prestigious Innovation Award, Bio-based Material of the Year 2019 is …
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Bioplastics Makes its Entry into the Luxury Packaging Awards
The “Luxury Packaging Awards” finally includes bioplastics and sustainable packaging under the category name: Luxury Resource Efficient Pack.
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The Final Nominations For The Bio-Based Material of The Year Award 2019
The most prestigious Bioplastics Award will take place on May 15th. What is the best bioplastics material and application in 2019? Discover the finalists.
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Bioplastics Awarded by UN Environment
A team of three university students from Lebanon emerged first at the Innovate Green Competition organized by the UN Environment West Asia Office for coming up with a bio-based material that could replace petroleum-based plastic materials.
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Bio Market Insights Innovation Awards 2019
A panel of global industry heavyweights from across the bio-based sector have made their verdicts and the winners of the Bio Market Insights Innovation Awards 2019 have now been announced!
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