Final call for Entries to Horners’ Bottlemakers Award Deadline 29th July 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
The Horners’ Bottlemakers Award is aimed at promoting good design and manufacture of plastic products made by Blow moulded or related techniques.
The entries should be a plastic bottle, jar or hollow container, made by any process including extrusion blow, injection blow, injection stretch blow, injection moulding, rotational moulding or vacuum forming. Each entry should have a proven record of recent commercial success.
Entries must be received at the BPF offices no later than 5pm on 29th July 2011. The application form for the Horners’ Award is available to download from www.hornersaward.co.uk
The winner of the Horners’ Bottlemakers award will be announced at 1:00pm on Tuesday 27th September 2011 on the BPF stand at this year’s Interplas Exhibition and will be presented with their Award on 6th October at The Mansion House during the annual banquet of the Worshipful Company of Horners,
The Horners' Company have long supported good design in the UK Plastics Industry through the Horners Award. The Worshipful Company of Horners' adopted the Leather Bottlemakers in the 15th Century. The Horners' Bottlemakers Award was established to run alongside the Horners award but to recognise advances made in plastic blow moulding and the creativity of bottle design and manufacture in the UK.
The 2010 winner of the Horners’ Bottlemakers Award was RPC Containers Ltd’s ‘revolutionary and environmentally friendly’ Vitamin Postal Pack. This year the organisers and sponsors are hoping to see a similar a high standard of entries demonstrating creativity and innovation from a wide range of applicants. (http://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/rpc-creates-postal-pack-for-pharmaceuticals/).
The 2011 Horners Bottlemakers Award is supported by the BPF and sponsored by UNILOY MILACRON, PROMA, BMC, British Plastics and Rubber and Automa.
For further information contact Kim Hawksworth at the British Plastics Federation on 0207 457 5007 or email [email protected]
For further information about the Worshipful Company of Horners’ visit www.horners.org.uk and for information about the BPF visit www.bpf.co.uk
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Notes to Editor
The Worshipful Company of Horners is both an ancient guild and livery company, and a modern City Institution. The first historic reference to the Company was recorded in 1284, although the craft of the horner dates from centuries earlier. To date the Worshipful Company of Horners maintains both its ancient links to the City of London and to the Plastics Industry and seeks to support the horner's craft. Its Liverymen hail from many backgrounds, including the City, the Plastics Industry and the professions. It’s Charities and Awards support activities in education, design, the City and industry.
Established in 1933 the British Plastics Federation is the most powerful voice in the UK plastic industry with over 400 members across the plastics industry supply chain, including polymer producers and suppliers, additive manufacturers, recyclers, services providers, end users, plastics processors and machinery manufacturers.
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