Nampak Plastics’ Infini bottle has won silver in the Packaging Innovation category of the 26th international DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation.
The awards honor innovations in packaging design, materials, technology, processes, and service across the entire packaging value chain.
The Infini bottle was picked from among nearly 200 entries and joins 15 other winners across the world.
Previous winners of the award include global giants Heinz, Coca-Cola and Unilever.
Prior to this award, Infini has won the Green Product of the Year at the British Engineering Excellence Awards in 2013 and silver for sustainability at the WorldStar Awards in the same year.
Nampak introduced Infini to the UK market in 2012, as an innovative and lightweight range of high density polyethylene (HDPE) milk bottles.
It has resulted in the world’s lightest 4-pint (2.27 liter) 32g bottle, which contains up to 20% less material than a standard bottle, and up to 30% recycled HDPE.
The industrial use of the bottle could potentially save the UK milk packaging industry 34,000 tons of plastic resin per annum and 16,000 tons of carbon.
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 and New Zealand markets in 2014.
In addition, the company is discussing with licensing partners in the US, European, Asian and African markets for liquid dairy and non-dairy bottle packaging applications.
