The winner of the Plastics Industry Ambassador Award 2023 will be announced at the Plastics Industry Awards on 17 November in London at the InterContinental Park Lane

Finalists 2023

5
Best Product Design of the Year

Boople, Kenneth Thornton

Holewise Medium Cover, FSW Design

Hoover HL5 Upright Vacuum Cleaner, Smallfry Industrial Design

JFC-IPL 97% Recycled Vertical Farming Tray, IPL Global

Link Vent 4000, Glazpart

6
Best Recycled Plastic Product of the Year

gomi speaker, gomi

iDry, Distrupol

JFC-IPL 97% Recycled Vertical Farming Tray, IPL Global

KI Postura+ 50% Recycled Chair, IPL Global

ReZorceĀ® Circular Packaging, Zotefoams

SubTerra, Polypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation

4
Rising Star

Luke Brown MSc, IPL Global

Rowan Fletcher, IPL Global

Daniel Kelk, Plastek UK

Luke Parsons, Summit Systems

3
Materials Innovation Award

Ampacet

Denimolite

Nordic Plast

8
Supplier Partnership - Prime Machinery

ARBURG, Hymid

Bole Machinery UK, Wykamol

ENGEL UK, Sanko Gosei

ENGEL UK, WHS Plastics

Krauss Maffei Group UK, Matrix Medical

STV Machinery, Fenton Precision Engineering

UK Extrusion, Berry bpi Bromborough

UK Extrusion, Elite Plastics

4
Supplier Partnership - Ancillary Machinery

Boddingtons, InTouch

Plastech Solutions, Corona Packaging

Summit Systems, Advanced Plastics

TH Plastics, Harwin

4
Supplier Partnership - Toolmaker

Ad-Vance Engineering, Plastics 2000 (P2K)

Adreco Plastics, VENTETE

Andel Plastics, No Fuss Fill

Plastech Solutions and Abate, Corona Packaging

6
Apprentice or Trainee Award of the Year

Leah Ebbs, OGM

Cody Etchells, Complexa HPE

Youssef Hafid, Pentagon

Nathan Hensley, Reliance Worldwide Corporation

Rebekah Parsons, Tex Plastics and Sierra 57 Consult

Benjamin Smith, Berry Norwich

4
Best Technology Application of the Year

Ampacet

Greenback Recycling Technologies

Kabel.Consult.Ing

Microban

7
Sustainability Initiative of the Year

Adreco Plastics and CURIO Group

Elite Plastics

Greenback Recycling Technologies

Inoplas Technology

Matrix Plastics

Peerless Plastics & Coatings

Polystar Plastics

6
Best Business Initiative of the Year

Big Bear Plastic Products

IPL Global

Matrix Plastics

MGS Technical Plastics

Sierra 57 Consult

WHS Plastics

4
Best Training and Development Programme of the Year

Jaguar Land Rover with ENGEL UK, Resinex, Sumitomo Demag and WHS Plastics

MGS Technical Plastics

Samvardhana Motherson Reflectec and Sierra 57 Consult

Talisman Plastics and Sierra 57 Consult

6
Unsung Hero

Sally Bailey, Common Sense PR

Shaine Gill-Ohrt, Skymark Packaging International

Danielle Harkness, Plastek UK

Jenny Mackay, IPL Global

Carla Read, Summit Systems

Edwin Simmonds, Plasticom Group

5
Processor of the Year

MGS Technical Plastics

OGM

Pentagon

Plastek UK

Polystar Plastics