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Chovi, Alimentary Group Citrus, Hofmann and SarahWorld propose the thematic of the V edition of the prizes of Packs and Packaging

05/03/2014

5 March 2014

The Cluster Innovation Pack and Packaging of the Comunitat Valencian will allocate in the V Edition of his prizes of Innovation in Design and Sustainability until 4.000 euros for the winning projects and that present students of upper learning or recently titled of all Spain.

For this edition, the works presented have to answer to the challenges that have posed the companies Chovi, Alimentary Group Citrus -interproveedor of Mercadona-, Hofmann and SarahWorld.

All the challenges presented by the companies require an innovative answer, that take into account environingingmental criteria.
Chovi, company leader in sauces and alimentary condiments, has posed the challenge of a container type tub for sauces in base of oil with a minimum environingingmental impact, that have some costs reduced and that it was autocerrable by what allow several uses. Since it treats of projects whose end last is that they can commercialise , also requires that the container proposed can manufacture in wide volumes.
The interproveedora of Mercadona Alimentary Group Citrus engloba the marks Verdifresh, Mesturados Canarian and Alnut. This last is allocated to childish feeding and has proposed the development of a container of childish cereals that differentiate what exists at present in the market, to a competitive price.

By his part the multinational Hofmann has posed a packaging for the sending of his albums of photos customised that it represent the emotions that contains the final product, that can use later and that also protect to the product during his trip.

SarahWorld, the prestigious designer of bags and shoes, has posed like challenge the design of a sustainable packaging for footwear that was autoportable and easily apilable. The innovation that pose has to be in tuning with his philosophy of mark and his product, realizar with materials 100% natural and with a rigorous ecological follow-up and sustainable of all the process with the aim to preserve the environingingment and promote the just trade.

Paco Ortega, president of the Cluster Innovation Pack and Packaging of the Comunitat Valencian, considers that “the implication of the companies in these prizes is a reflection of the support that give to this initiative like a road to approach the offer and the demand in the packs and packaging in profit of the innovation. The container and the packaging is a sector that, permanently, needs to contribute new solutions to the challenges that the society poses us”.

The bases of the contest can consult in the web of the Cluster Innovation pack and packaging and the deadline of delivery of the works is the next 14 March.

The V Edition of the “Prizes of Design and Sustainability of Packs and Packaging” has the financials of the Program of support to the Innovative Business Groupings (AEI) of the Ministry of Industry, Power and Tourism of the Government of Spain.

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