The Packaging Innovation of the Year Award celebrates the best new packaging by packaging manufacturers as they strive to meet changing customer and market requirements for the food, homecare and personal care; agriculture and horticulture; industrial, retail and HORECA; pharmaceuticals and petrochemicals sectors in Africa.

This category is valid for packaging innovations launched since January 2023. 

The Awards seek to encourage more thoughtful and impactful innovation coming out of Africa’s packaging industry.

Judges look out for innovations that break barriers in the product’s conceptualisation, sustainability, design and other unique attributes. 

The Packaging Innovation of the Year is divided into the following sub-categories:

PRIMARY PACKAGING INNOVATION OF THE YEAR – open to packaging solutions that come into direct contact with food and other consumer goods and include cans, tubes, pouches, glass, cartons, plastic containers etc

SECONDARY/TERTIARY PACKAGING INNOVATION OF THE YEAR  – open to packaging solutions that are used to offer secondary or tertiary protection to consumer and related products and include corrugated board, pallets, crates and trays.

BULK PACKAGING INNOVATION OF THE YEAR  – include drums and other bulk packaging solutions