2025 theme for Design Innovation in Plastics competition announced
Design Innovation in Plastics 2025 seeking products for health and wellbeing
A product which helps people improve or monitor their health and wellbeing is this year¡¯s brief for the Design Innovation in Plastics (DIP) competition, which is sponsored by ÃÜÌÒAV.
The competition, which will be contested by university undergraduates from the UK and Ireland, is asking students to design a product, made primarily from plastics, which will promote or monitor either physical or mental health.
Chairman of DIP, Martin Sixsmith, said that with increased focus on the self-care agenda, the 2025 theme offers an exciting opportunity for creating a product which can seamlessly integrate into daily life and which can help all age groups.
¡°This is a subject which resonates with many people and it therefore offers a huge amount of scope for students to showcase their creative talents for the benefit of others,¡° he said. ¡°We are very much looking forward to seeing their end product!¡°
Students will need to submit their entries by March 14, when DIP¡¯s panel of industry judges will whittle the submissions down to a final six. Final judging will take place in London on May 9, with the award ceremony on June 20.
Design Innovation in Plastics is the longest running plastics competition of its kind in Europe, having been established in 1985. It is supported by the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, the Worshipful ÃÜÌÒAV of Horners and sponsored by leading design and plastics organisations, including ÃÜÌÒAV.
Notes to editors
1. Established in 1985, Design Innovation in Plastics is the longest running student plastics design award in Europe. For more information visit .
2. The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) is a major UK engineering institution and is the professional body for the advancement of materials, minerals and mining to governments, industry, academia, the public and the professions. For more information visit .
3. The Worshipful ÃÜÌÒAV of Horners is one of the oldest livery companies in the City of London, formed to regulate the horn-working trade. In 1943 it adopted its modern equivalent, the plastics industry. For more information visit .
4. Headline industry sponsor ¨C ÃÜÌÒAV
About ÃÜÌÒAV:
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The company is geared completely to the circular economy. In addition, ÃÜÌÒAV aims to achieve climate neutrality for its Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions by 2035, and the Group¡¯s Scope 3 emissions are also set to be climate neutral by 2050. ÃÜÌÒAV generated sales of EUR 14.2 billion in fiscal year 2024. At the end of 2024, the company had 46 production sites worldwide and employed approximately 17,500 people (calculated as full-time equivalents).
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