Shortlist Announced For Inaugural Sustainable Medicines Packaging Awards

Finalists showcase innovations in sustainable pharmaceutical packaging, with winners to be announced at Connect in Pharma.

25 August 2022 / Sciad Newswire / YewMaker and Connect In Pharma announce today the shortlisted finalists for the new Sustainable Medicines Packaging Awards. Winners will be announced at an in-person champagne ceremony at Connect In Pharma, a new annual event connecting innovators in pharma and biotech to the world’s leading suppliers and manufacturers.

The awards, launched this year by sustainable healthcare pioneers YewMaker, showcase and celebrate innovations in sustainable packaging design to reduce waste or bring circularity into the pharma packaging supply chain.

Nazneen Rahman, YewMaker founder and CEO, says: “Pharmaceuticals are major global users of packaging, and the packaging materials used often have important functions to deliver medicines safely. These awards recognise innovations that keep this critical role that medicine packaging plays but in a more sustainable way.”

Thirteen applicants have been shortlisted, with gold, silver and bronze winners for two categories due to be announced on 14 September 2022 in Geneva. The shortlisted applicants are: 

Design Award

●      Dual Chamber Blister – Pantec AG/Pharmapan

●      Eastalite Universal Device Shipping Tray – Plastic Ingenuity

●      EcoSecur Type 2 Glass Vials – Stoelzle Glass Group

●      Phill Box – Parcel Health

●      Protecting the Product and the Environment – Essentra Packaging

●      Qube Pro – Jones Healthcare Group

●      Sustainable Grassboard in Pharma Packaging – Körber Pharma Packaging Materials AG

Circularity Award

●      “Cut the waste” Service through Liveo Optima Scientific Package Design Program – Liveo Research Inc

●      Circularity Solutions for Thermoformed Plastics Along the Pharma Value Chain – Plastic Ingenuity

●      Circularity-as-a-Service for Medicine Plastics – Automedi

●      eZCooler – Zuellig Pharma

●      Sharpsmart Reusable Containers – Sharpsmart Ltd

●      Smart Reusable Packaging –  Monoceros and Emball’Iso

“We have been delighted by the response to the awards and are excited to come together at this event to shine a spotlight on sustainability innovations in the pharmaceutical industry,” says Rahman.

Renan Joel, Divisional Director at Connect in Pharma, says: “Both these awards and Connect in Pharma are about celebrating and nurturing innovation in the European pharma and biotech industry, so hosting the awards ceremony at the inaugural edition of this event feels like a great fit. We are proud to be supporting innovations that promote sustainability in the industry.” 

Find out more about the awards and how to join the event at https://www.connectinpharma.com/sustainable-medicines-packaging-awards/ .

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Notes to editors

About Connect in Pharma

Connect in Pharma is a fresh and exciting new event for the European pharmaceutical and biotechnology community, taking place in the heart of the market in Geneva.

The event has been launched in answer to feedback from the community to fill a gap in the market to have an event at the centre of the pharma and biotech world, namely Switzerland. It is designed to address the most critical issues and challenges of the industry in a pivotal time for the packaging market, as well as provide a forum for inspiration, learning, collaboration, networking and sourcing.

Find out more about Connect in Pharma, the agenda and exhibitors at https://www.connectinpharma.com/

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About YewMaker

YewMaker builds science-based, scalable concepts and solutions that make healthcare more sustainable. YewMaker is the initiator and executive lead of the Sustainable Medicines Partnership. Learn more at www.yewmaker.com.

About the Sustainable Medicines Partnership

The SMP is a not-for-profit, private-public, multi-stakeholder collaboration. Through executing priority actions, the Sustainable Medicines Partnership aims to stop the avoidable waste of medicines and medicines packaging – reducing healthcare emissions and increasing health equity globally. Learn more at www.yewmaker.com/smp

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