SPI’s first International Plastics Design Competition (IPDC) debuts at NPE2009 . . .Designers and manufacturers of plastics components and finished products will have an opportunity to display their most innovative achievements before tens of thousands of plastics professionals attending NPE2009. In September, a Call for Applicants was issued by SPI's Alliance for Plastics Processors (APP), the competition organizers. The APP and its predecessor, SPI's Structural Plastics Division (SPD), have organized 36 previous design competitions, but the one at NPE2009 will be the first open to products in any end-use market, from automotive to packaging, and to entrants from any country in the world.
Many of the products competing in the IPDC will be on exhibit at a special pavilion in the new West Building of McCormick Place. Large-scale ones will be displayed in the main concourses. A panel of experts will serve as judges, and a "Peoples Choice" award will recognize the product receiving the most online pre-show votes from visitors at http://www.npe.org/. Winners will be announced during the Plastics Hall of Fame induction banquet on June 22.
"How fitting that the design award winners will be recognized at an event honoring inductees into the Plastics Hall of Fame," saidPaul Dier, chairman of the APP executive committee. "It's a way of linking where our industry has come from with how far we have progressed and what we will achieve tomorrow."
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