Plastics Industry Awards 2014 finalists announced

The shortlist for the 2014 Plastics Industry Awards (PIAs) has been published today. Winners will be announced by comedian Al Murray, aka The Pub Landlord, at a glittering gala event on 24 October at the London Hilton on Park Lane. One of the few stand-up comedians to be asked by ITV to perform two Audience With.... shows, no-nonsense Al is known for his British Comedy Award-winning series Al Murray’s Happy Hour and his sitcom Time Gentlemen Please. Other work includes Al Murray’s Multiple Personality Disorder and his latest TV-series Compete for the Meat.


With 16 categories covering materials usage, product design, manufacturing, training and environmental performance, the PIAs highlight and recognise the best that the innovative UK plastics industry has to offer. This year’s black tie event is set to attract around 800 guests including supplier companies, OEM manufacturers, plastics processors, consultants, trainees and designers.


The 2014 ceremony will also feature a new category, Best Recycled Plastics Product of the Year, to recognise the strides that are being made in the design and development of products made from recycled plastic. Finalists in this new category include Camden Group, Holfeld Plastics, Linpac Packaging, Marmax Products, RPC Group, Warremarketing, Panel2Panel and Logoplaste UK. Logoplaste UK are also short listed for Best Energy & Environmental Initiative and the coveted Processor of the Year category along with Boddingtons Plastics, Nifco UK, Plastek UK and RPC Group.


Design companies on the consumer and industrial design shortlists include Cycloc, HJC Design, RPC Group, Smallfry, Boddingtons Plastics, Excelsior and Greaves Best Design, while four individuals have been shortlisted for Young Designer of the Year. A Personal Contribution to the Plastics Industry award will also be announced and given on the night to the person who has given exemplary service to the sector throughout his or her career.


Steve Crowhurst, managing director of Crain Communications UK which organises the PIAs, said: “We’ll be showing on the night the very best of what the country’s plastics industry can achieve across a range of manufacturing activities and disciplines. It’s going to be a great evening.”


This year’s judging panel included Dr Robin Kent, MD, Tangram Technology; Mercia Gick; Dr George Kellie, Chairman, KellieSolutions™; Julia Moore, Chief Executive, GTMA; Professor Gordon Smith, Head of the Polymer and Composites Materials Group, University of Warwick; Les Wynn, Manager of Experience Design and Covers Engineering, HCL Technologies Ltd.; John Whitehead, ex-Editor, PRW; Dr Peter Cox, Consultant, and Graeme Paterson, Director, Brightworks.


PIA platinum sponsors this year are Engel; Fanuc, and Krauss Maffei, while PIA gold sponsors are BMB Machinery; Distrupol; Hasco; Sabic; Sumitomo Demag, and Summit Systems. Event supporters are the British Plastics Federation; BIDA; the GTMA; PDM; PMMDA; The Polymer Training and Innovation Centre; PRE, and Recoup. The PMMDA also donates a money prize given to the winner of the Apprentice of Trainee of the Year.


Last year’s gala event was a sell-out so book your table early to avoid disappointment. Tickets include a champagne reception, four course dinner, celebrity awards presentation and after show entertainment.


For more information or to book visit www.plasticsawards.com or contact Jackie Hughes on jackiehughes@live.co.uk


Plastics Industry Awards 2014 Finalists:


Consumer Product Design of the Year

Cycloc

HJC Design

RPC Group

Smallfry


Industrial Product Design of the Year

Boddingtons Plastics

Excelsior

Greaves Best Design


Young Designer of the Year

Ainsley Cox

Thomas Hamilton

Jamie Mansfield

Lucinda Vieira-Martins


Best Recycled Plastic Product of the Year

Camden Group

Holfeld Plastics

Linpac Packaging

Logoplaste UK

Marmax Products

Panel2Panel

RPC Group

Warremarketing


Supplier Partnership – Polymer Distributor

Distrupol (two entries)

Hardie Polymers

Plastribution


Supplier Partnership – Polymer Producer

DuPont UK

Petlon Polymers


Supplier Partnership – Prime Machinery

BMB Plastics Machinery

Engel UK

Ferromatik Milacron

KraussMaffei Group UK

Negri Bossi

Premier Moulding Machinery

Sumitomo Demag


Supplier Partnership – Ancillary Machinery

KraussMaffei Group UK

Piovan

Sumitomo Demag

Summit Systems

TH Plastics

UPM Conveyors


Supplier Partnership – Masterbatch/Compound/Additive

Colourtone Masterbatch

Matrix Plastics


Supplier Partnership – Toolmaker

Interplex Select Moulds

Sprint Tool & Die


Apprentice or Trainee of the Year

Steve Amos of Logoplaste UK

Dan Box of Interplex Select Moulds

Anna Donaldson of Nifco UK

Giorgio Guarino of Interplex Select Moulds

Leon Hill of UCP Zeller

Mark Kerridge of Hypro UK

Nathan Scutt of Mason Pinder Toolmakers

Tom Sharp of Plastek UK

Thomas Sullivan of Fanuc


Best Technology Application of the Year

DRFP

DSM

Holfeld Plastics

Linpac Packaging


Best Energy or Environmental Initiative of the Year

Logoplaste UK

Motan Colortronic

Polythene UK


Best Business Initiative of the Year

G&A Moulding Technology

Plastek UK

Plastikcity

Polythene UK

Rosti UK


Best Training and Development Programme of the Year

DuPont Performance Polymers

G&A Moulding Technology

Hymid Multi Shot

Logoplaste UK

Rosti UK

RPC Group (RPC Containers, Oakham)


Processor the Year

Boddingtons Plastics

Logoplaste UK

Nifco UK

Plastek UK

RPC Group