Horners’ Award for Plastics: Winner Announced

The 2009 Horners' Award for Plastics Design and Innovation was presented to Omlet Ltd for their innovative 'Beehaus' Plastic Beehive. The presentation was made by Lord Levene on 1st October 2009 at the Horners’ Annual Banquet held at the Mansion House.

The Beehaus had been developed using modern plastics materials to provide bees with a safe, modern home in which to live and makes beekeeping straightforward and fun.

The prestigious Horners' Award, run jointly by the Worshipful Company of Horners and the British Plastics Federation, is now in its 64th year and as such is the World's oldest plastics award. The Award is presented annually for imaginative Design and Innovative contributions to the plastics industry.

The judges of this year’s Award were greatly impressed by the Omlet Beehaus due to its use of plastics materials to benefit the environment and to address a topical issue, the decline in bee populations. Moreover, Omlet is the first company in the history of the Award to have won twice, having received the Award in 2004 for their ‘Eglu’ plastics Chicken Coop.

The judges were also delighted to nominate Mas Design as recipient of the BPF's Highly Commended Certificate for their 'OneTouch' Jar Opener, an innovative, plastics reliant, device that allows elderly people to open stubborn jars with the touch of a button. The BPF's Highly Commended Certificate will be presented to the winner at the BPF Annual Dinner, held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel on 5th November.

Winning the Horner's Bottlemaking Award was Northumbria Blow Mouldings Ltd, for their range of 'Nemesis' bottles which incorporate an integrated handle and are manufactured by extrusion blow moulding modified PET.


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For further information on this press release, please contact Anthony Roberts, British Plastics Federation, 6 Bath Place, Rivington Street, London EC2A 3JE, tel 020 7457 5043, fax 020 7457 5045, email: [email protected]

For further information about The Worshipful Company of Horners please see the website http://www.horners.org.uk or contact The Clerk: Raymond Layard, The Horners’ Company, c/o St Stephen’s House, Hide Place, London SW1P 4NJ (Telephone: 020 7834 1575, email: [email protected]).

For further information about the Beehaus please see their website: http://www.omlet.co.uk

Notes for editors:

1) British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry - representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.

2) The Worshipful Company of Horners is a City livery company which has a major interest in the well-being of the UK Plastics Industry and is involved in many educational and charitable initiatives in support of the UK sector.