March 2017

The Swiss Packaging Award is an award by the Swiss Packaging Institute, SVI, to recognize outstanding achievements in the field of packaging in seven categories. The aim of the competition is to showcase the creativity and innovation of the Swiss packaging industry. Winners of Swiss Packaging Awards are able to participate in the World Star international packaging competition. The Victorinox Ella flacon wins the Audience Award and secures a place amongst the top 3 in the Design category.

The special and innovative design of the Sinus Canister ensure excellent use of space and stackability. In addition, the lid grip and the recess in the bottom of the tank enables user-friendly handling. Sinus also makes a good bottle on the retail shelf due to its unusual shape and provides enough room to accommodate product information and logos.This design is developed by students  Markus Adam, Julien Göthling of Beuth University of Applied Sciences, Berlin.

Hexabag paper sack is the latest concept in industrial packaging for food and pharmaceutical sectors. It is developed to meet the clean room concept, the package has two layers, an external one in paper and an internal plastic layer  which can be easily separated, providing higher food safety.

It adds aluminium protection for greater shelf life in products and ingredients.

Pilzbox the goal certified organic gourmet mushroom growing kits has (so-called. Grow kits) offer for the Swiss household. To this end, an innovative and ready-made mushroom-growing packaging concept has been developed which enables the consumer, without any prior knowledge and using the simplest means Gourmet Mushrooms fresh breed home from a box out and consume.

The stable plug-in modules and the pre-assembled floor panels guarantee a fast construction and a healthy gentle packaging of the cargo. With the correct strapping superior overall stability is achieved for the transport.  The lower by approximately 40% compared to wood weight simplifies handling and reduces transport costs, particularly in the air freight.  Due to the materials used, the MC Box is not subject to export restrictions, is also the product - small series can be used and manufactured tailored to customer requirements.