Wilmington Media, publisher of Manufacturing Chemist, Packaging Today, Converting Today and RFID Solutions, is to play a key role in the organising and staging of the UK's top packaging industry awards alongside next May's Total Processing & Packaging Exhibition 2007 in Birmingham.
The four magazine titles, alongside sister publications SPC (Soap, Perfumery and Cosmetics), ECM (European Cosmetics Market) and Blueprint, have been selected by IOP: The Packaging Society to help run and promote its Starpack Industry Awards 2007. The awards will be presented on May 15 during the exhibition, at a glittering ceremony, dinner and cabaret event at Birmingham's National Motorcycle Museum. The same titles will also be supporting the Student and School Starpack Awards 2007, presented earlier the same day.
Several new award categories are planned for next year, including the opportunity to win a Gold, Silver or Bronze Starpack Industry Award 2007 for the Best Pharmacy and Toiletries Pack.
"Awards programmes must never stand still but must instead grow to encompass all the challenges facing the packaging supply chain," said Gordon Stewart, head of the Society and the UK's only recognised packaging industry qualification awarding body, the PIABC. "We recognise that to do this we must not only take notice of all the markets our industry serves but also not ignore any of the vital material sectors that bring so much choice to packaging users."