KIWI WINNERS Cas-Pak Products from Silverdale,
New Zealand companies have been lauded across the Tasman
for packaging innovations that include an automated lamb
processing system, packaging that triples the shelf-life of
fresh avocados, and a food packet that turns into a breakfast
bowl for hardy travellers. Kiwi winners of awards at this year’s
Packaging & Processing Innovation & Design Awards are:
whose foil pouch created for Hamilton’s
Radix Nutrition won the PIDA
for ‘Design Innovation of the Year
– Food’. The pouches are designed
to turn into a breakfast bowl when
torn open, and users include Volvo
Ocean Race competitors.
Silver Fern Farms and its automated
system for processing lamb
carcases into retail cuts, which won
‘Design Innovation of the Year – Machinery
& Equipment’. The system
designed by Dunedin’s Scott Automation
& Robotics is the only lamb
automation system worldwide.
