Horners’ Awards for Plastics and Horners’ Bottlemakers Award now open for entries
Monday, 21 March 2011
Entries for The Worshipful Company of Horners’ prestigious Horners' Award for Plastics Design and Innovation and the Horners Bottlemakers Award, in conjunction with the British Plastics Federation (BPF), are now open and must be received by the deadline of 29th July 2011.
The Horners' Award encourages excellence in UK expertise and, as such, entries must have demonstrated that the product, machine or process entered has significant UK content in design, materials or manufacture. As a further encouragement to UK entrepreneurship, entries must have a proven record of recent commercial success.
“The Horners’ Award is a prestigious accolade with a number of commercial benefits gained from winning the Award. Last year we saw a record number of entrants all demonstrating high levels of innovation and exemplary creativity in design. The calibre of entrants year-after-year demonstrates its uniqueness and how vital in promoting all that design in plastics stands for - innovation,” said David Williams, the Master of The Horners Company.
The Horners' Award is believed to be the oldest Plastics Design Award in the world, being instituted in 1945, and presents an opportunity for manufacturing companies and designers to join the distinguished ranks of winners, which include the 2010 winner, the highly innovative and user friendly “Easy Clean” - Bedside Cabinet, developed by Kinneir Dufort.
Other noted products to have won the Award include the ‘Beehaus’ in 2008 and the ‘Durakerb’ lightweight kerbing system which recently won a contract to supply the London 2012 Olympics.
The Horners’ Bottlemakers Award is also run jointly by the Worshipful Company of Horners and the British Plastics Federation. Entries for this Award must 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.
The winner of the Horners’ Bottlemakers Award 2010 was RPC Containers Ltd’s ‘revolutionary and environmentally friendly’ Vitamin Postal Pack.
Winners of both competitions are presented with their Awards at The Mansion House during the annual banquet of the Worshipful Company of Horners, one of the City of London's most progressive Livery Companies. This year's banquet will take place on 6th October 2011.
The runner up to the Horners’ Award will be presented with the BPF President’s Award at the Federation's Annual Dinner. The BPF Annual Dinner will be held on October 12th 2011.
Application forms for both the Horners’ Award and the Horners’ Bottleblowers Award are available to download from www.hornersaward.co.uk
For further information contact Kim Hawksworth at the British Plastics Federation on 0207 457 5007 or email [email protected] and for more information about the Worshipful Company of Horners, please visit www.horners.org.uk
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Notes to editor
The Horners Award is an annual award for an imaginative or innovative contribution to the plastics industry. The Worshipful Company of Horners was founded to set and maintain standards in the ancient craft of the Horner.
After it had 'adopted' plastics, the company introduced an award to encourage good design in plastics, these materials being the logical successor to the horn.
The Horners ‘Award is jointly organised by the Worshipful Company of Horners', a City Livery Company, and The British Plastics Federation (BPF).
The 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.
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