Packaging Evolution Award won by KCA

26 August 2008

Kimberly-Clark Australia has won an award for the most innovative packaging waste management solution.

This is the second time that Kimberly-Clark has been recognised in the Evolution Awards, as last year Kimberly-Clark won the ‘Best in Personal Care’ and ‘Best in Show’ awards.

Kimberly-Clark’s environmental management of packaging together with cost savings and excellence in packaging print quality presented a very compelling case for the most innovative solution to the award judges.

The Packaging Evolution Awards recognise the National Packaging Covenant (NPC) achievements of companies in Australia and New Zealand, and Kimberly-Clark’s efforts have been judged as the most innovative in the industry for 2008.

Our entry for the 2008 Evolution Awards was recognized for the recent film weight reductions for Thick & Thirsty^® kitchen towel, film reductions for Huggies^® bulk nappies, continuing work on Kleenex^® toilet tissue, Viva^® paper towel and Wondersoft^® toilet tissue reductions and the identification of reductions for facial corrugated board.

Kimberly-Clark Australia Packaging team

The award acknowledged the way we go about packaging development and the application of packaging technology knowledge which we continually update via our training and interaction with our mills and suppliers. We also have excellent on-site packaging waste management programs which add further dimensions to our annual NPC reporting.

In addition to winning the ‘most innovative waste management solution’ award, Kimberly-Clark was also a finalist in the ‘Community Care’ category of this year’s awards, as a result of the marketing efforts of its Community Care program, Wondersoft^® toilet tissue promotion and the Clean Up Australia initiatives of the Schools Education Campaign.

“It is a truly fabulous result to win the NPC Innovation Award and to reach the finalist stage for Community Care,” said Kimberly-Clark’s Packaging Manager, Frank Bova.

“It shows the great teamwork that we have in Kimberly-Clark and the effort we put into developing innovative solutions to streamline and continuously improve our packaging solutions.”