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# Plastics Industry Awards 2025: Winners revealed
- URL: https://www.plasticsiq.com/plastics-industry-awards-2025-winners-revealed/
- Published: 2025-11-24T09:51:36.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-21T19:01:02.000Z
- Description: The winners of the Plastics Industry Awards 2025 were revealed on Friday night (21 November) during a black-tie gala at the Intercontinental London Park Lane.
- Author: Giulia Daniele

**The winners of the Plastics Industry Awards 2025 were revealed on Friday night (21 November) during a black-tie gala at the Intercontinental London Park Lane. Hosted by comedian, actress, writer and television personality Ellie Taylor, the event celebrated the vital role that plastics product design, manufacturing and recycling play in driving successful and sustainable innovation across the UK and Eire.**

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In a first for the PIAs, **Engel** won the *Supplier Partnership Injection Moulding* Award with two different entries to which the judges awarded top marks. Their winning partners were with Bentley Motors and Summit Systems for automotive interior panel lightweighting, and with Notpla for its biopolymer packaging.

The *Supplier Partnership Auxiliary* Award went to **TH Plastics** and **Counterplas** while the *Supplier Partnership Toolmaker* Award went to **Ad-Vance Engineering** and **RLC Group** (Aerospace Engineering).

One of two new awards introduced for 2025, *Polyurethane Innovation* went to the **Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry**, **ArianeGroup GmbH, European Space Agency ESTEC & MT Aerospace** for its sustainable cryogenic PUR foam insulation for liquified hydrogen tanks on space rockets.

**Miklos Argyelan** of Amcor (Rigid Packaging Solutions International) won the *Apprentice or Trainee* Award and was awarded a £500 prize by the PMMDA. The *Unsung Hero* award went to **Darren Burton** of IPL Global.

The second new award for *Sustainable Extrusion Technology* was won by **Flexipol Packaging, Plasmac and UK Extrusion** for Flexipol’s successful introduction of in-house recycling and reuse of industrial scrap material using the Plasmac Alpha S Plus re-pelletiser.

The *Sustainable Product Design of the Year* was won by **Greyparrot** for its next-generation Greyparrot Analyzer Unit which now uses computer vision, rather than energy-hungry generative AI, to identify different types of material more accurately than manual sampling.

**Amcor CleanStream Leamington Spa** won *Recycler of the Year* for CleanStream, which mechanically processes domestically recovered household PP waste back into contact-sensitive packaging.

The *Material innovation* award was won by **Matrix Medical Materials, Matrix Plastics and KraussMaffei**.

**International Scientific Supplies** (ISS) won the prestigious *Processor of the Year* Award, which looks at overall company performance across a series of different areas, including business growth, technology innovation, environmental custody and community involvement.

*Best Training & Development Programme* went to the **British Plastics Federation** for its comprehensive training programme around Operation Clean Sweep (OCS). **Plastek UK** lifted the award for *Best Business Initiative*.

**Colin Tirel**, Managing Director of Arburg Limited who has served the UK plastics industry for some four decades was named at *Plastics Industry Ambassador*. **Karen Laird**, the founding editor of Sustainable Plastics website and magazine was also given a special tribute on the night as she retires after six years at the helm.

Matt Barber, Global Events Director at Crain Communications, which organises the awards said: “This year’s entries showcased an outstanding breadth of innovation, collaboration and commitment to sustainability across the plastics sector. Congratulations to the companies and individuals recognised this year. The awards highlight both outstanding organisational performance and exceptional personal achievement across the sector.”