Starpack Archive & Winners' Guides
The Starpack Schools & Students competition aims to excite the next generation into thinking of packaging as a career.
Starpack Schools & Students gives students and early career professionals an early introduction to a diverse global industry that many of us take for granted. The competition is also a great opportunity for the students to showcase their great ideas and solutions directly to an industry looking for rising stars.
Established in 1964, Starpack Students is a competition for learners aged 18+ which challenges students to design solutions to problems set by brand-leading FMCG companies, design agencies and manufacturers, and win recognition of their excellence.
Information on past Starpack Students Competitions can be found below.
2023 Starpack Students Competition
Starpack Hack 2023
Starpack Hack Webinar Recordings
Starpack Hack Webinar Recording - 20 January 2023
Starpack Hack Webinar Recording - 2 February 2023
Starpack Hack Meeting LoginsBrief A Resources: Replacing Multi-Material Packaging
Sponsor: Alupro
CIAL FBA_Aluminium_Packaging_Guidelines_for_an_ecofriendly_design_CIAL (TG).pdfBrief B Resources: World Cup Qatar 2022 - Promotional Soft Drinks Bottle
Sponsor: Logoplaste
How are bottles made:-
HOW IT'S MADE - Plastic Bottles (UK Version) - YouTube
Which Blow Molding Process is Right for Your Bottle? - Drug Plastics - YouTube
General Information:-
PET Plastic Bottle Manufacturing Process Step-by-Step Introduction - YouTube
Life of a Plastic Bottle - YouTube
PETCO's Story of how a PET bottle is recycled. - YouTube
Complete Milk Bottling Line made by SMF - YouTube
Krones convinces all along the line - YouTube
HDPE Milk Bottles Recycling Journey | Vanden Recycling - YouTube
Single Stage PET Blowing Machine:
- How does injection stretch blow moulding process work? - YouTube
- Nissei ASB 70 DPH version 3-4 Injection Stretch Blow Moulding machines - YouTube
- NISSEI ASB MACHINE CO. LTD.
Injection Moulding PET Machine:
Two Stage PET Blow Moulding machine:-
- Blowing step by step - YouTube
- Bottle blowing machine - SIDEL
- Krones Contiform 3 Pro - Krones
- Energy-efficient stretch blow molder for PET bottles | KHS Group
Brief C Resources: Metal gift pack for champagne or sparkling wine
Sponsor: Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association
Visit www.mpma.org.uk for guidance and helpful videos.
For inspiration see: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/metalpackuk/student-briefinspiration-2023/
For how speciality packs are made see: https://www.mpma.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Speciality-Packs.pdf
Brief D Resources: Walkers #CrispIn or #CrispOut front of store display
Sponsor: Smurfit Kappa Display
Register for Pop Watch via our website http://www.smurfitkappadisplay.com
Brief E Resources: Sustainable solutions with corrugated cardboard
Sponsor: VPK Packaging UK & Ireland
The 2023 Starpack Students Competition was sponsored by
2022 Starpack Students Competition
Starpack Schools is a competition for learners aged 11 to 17 that has been designed to
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encourage young people to consider the important role played by packaging and materials
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promote careers in the packaging industry as exciting, challenging and rewarding
2022 Starpack Schools Competition
Who can enter?
Open to pupils and students currently studying at Key Stage 4, GCSE's, AS/A2, BTEC Levels 2/3 and NCFE programmes, and now in their sixteenth year, the Starpack Schools awards form part of the annual Starpack Awards programme which also includes the Starpack Students Packaging Design Awards for colleges and universities.
Packaging is an industry that is around us every day, but one that we take little notice of. Look around you - in the supermarket, in your home, in your school - every item has arrived in a package and outer packaging is used for transportation. We are now very conscious of the environmental impact of packaging, so innovative packaging solutions that preserve, protect and promote the product inside are all the more important.
The 2022 Starpack Schools Competition was sponsored by