Healthy competition, with diverse product entries from around the world

Entries are streaming into the International Plastics Design Competition from a wide range of end market industries, reminding us that plastics really do touch all aspects of our lives. Entrants hailing from Asia, Europe and the Americas have submitted products into categories including recreation and leisure, medical and scientific, packaging, transportation, agriculture, building and construction and retail/consumer products. Several entries have also come in from the exploding new market for plastics in single-use bio-processing, where plastics are being utilized in place of stainless steel bio-processing systems to achieve greater process flexibility and enhanced process economics in the manufacture of cell cultures for biotherapeutics.

Among the global companies represented in the design competition are Bemis Manufacturing and Minco Tool and Mold, Inc., both of whom have supported the competition since its early years as a domestic event geared toward the structural foam industry. It has been really exciting to see these companies joined by their peers from around the world engaged with plastics materials and processing technologies of all kinds and serving diverse end markets.

Stay tuned for more on the entries and competitors over the next few weeks as product submission continues through April 1^st.