PIDA Awards now open

Entries are now open for the 2025 Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design (PIDA) Awards, designed to recognise companies and individuals who are making a significant difference in their field in Australia and New Zealand.

Coordinated by the Australasian Institute of Packaging (AIP), the PIDA Awards offer recognition across 15 categories and are the exclusive entry point for the WorldStar Packaging Awards for the region. This awards program is industry-led and has a sole purpose of recognising innovative and intuitive packaging and the talented people who make up this industry.

2025 PIDA Categories

The Design Innovation of the Year company awards will recognise organisations that have designed innovative packaging within each of these six manufacturing categories:

1. Food
2. Beverage
3. Health, Beauty & Wellness
4. Domestic & Household
5. Labelling & Decoration
6. Outside of the Box

There are four special awards available:

1. Sustainable Packaging Design
2. Save Food Packaging Design
3. Accessible & Inclusive Packaging Design
4. Marketing

In addition there are three awards designed for people who have made specific contributions to the packaging industry:

• Young Packaging Professional of the Year
• Industry Packaging Professional of the Year
• Packaging Technologist of the Year

The Packaging Technologist of the Year Award is unique in that it is designed to recognise and acknowledge the outstanding achievements and contribution by an individual currently working within the packaging industry across Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

There are two scholarships available that are supported by the Australasian Bioplastics Association (ABA):

1. ABA Diploma in Packaging Scholarship
2. ABA Certificate in Packaging Scholarship

Entries close on 24 January and more information is available here.

The winners of the PIDA Awards will be announced on 6 May at the gala awards dinner to be held alongside of the biennial Australasian Packaging Conference, which will be held at the Sofitel Sydney Wentworth, New South Wales, Australia.

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