DuPont Teijin Films win’s Gold at the DOW Awards


DuPont Teijin Films are delighted to have won Gold in the 2019 DOW Packaging Innovation Awards today Tuesday 17th September 2019.

Dow announced the winners of the awards, which recognise the packaging industry’s top achievements in innovative packaging design, materials, technologies and processes.

“This year we received a record-breaking number of submissions for innovative, forward-thinking packaging designs from around the world,” said Diego Donoso, business president for Dow Packaging & Specialty Plastics. I’m continually impressed by the world-class innovations that we see year after year. Congratulations to DuPont Teijin Films and the LuxCR™ innovation for helping drive the industry forward.”

The 2019 Packaging Innovation Awards hosted by Dow, previously known as the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation, is now in its 31st year, and is the industry’s longest-running independently judged packaging awards program. Each year, the judging panel consists of professionals from around the world in a wide range of fields, including design, engineering, retail, converting and academia.

“This is a huge honour for DuPont Teijin Films and is well deserved recognition for all the hard work put in by the R&D and manufacturing team in Luxembourg” said Steve Davies, EMEA Packaging Market Manager. “The LuxCR™ depolymerisation process marks an important milestone for the further adoption of monomer recycling across the polyester industry and underlines DuPont Teijin Films’ commitment towards increasing the circularity of it’s products”