On July 11, 2023, the World Corrugated Awards (WCA) Ceremony, organized by RX (Reed Exhibitions), was successfully held at the Wyndham Hotel, Shanghai Hongqiao. Cheng, Michael, President of RX Greater China, Li Hua, president of the China Packaging Federation, Kishan, WPO Ambassador and CP Lau, representative of ACCA, and many other industry elites and leaders came to the scene.
Since the inception in 2019, the WCA has been successfully held for 2 times, aiming to select the most pioneering design, marketing, management, and social responsibility cases of the current year, and to recognize corrugated companies, teams and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of the global corrugated industry.
On 12 December 2022, the RX announced the return of WCA with brand new awards. And It's the first year RX co-organized WCA with ACCA. On the awarding ceremony, CP Lau, representative of ACCA went on stage and said ACCA always regarded WCA as the milestone grand event in bi-annual calendar to welcome and gather the global industry's key decision makers to celebrate. In the future, ACCA will continue to work with RX to make the WCA the "Oscars" of the corrugated industry.
The members of WCA 2023 jury included Peter van Ostaijen, Secretary General of CBA, Varna Sudasna, Chief Packaging Specialist of SCG Packaging, Hernán Braberman, Partner & Executive Design Director of Tridimage and other corrugated industry authorities. The international judging panel is the core team of the World Corrugated Awards, their professionalism and fairness in scoring the nominated cases and writing their comments determine the "internationality" and "authority" of the WCA.
For the WCA, 2023 was a year full of change. It experienced the worst period of the epidemic in China, making case collection more difficult than in previous years. During the entire competition that lasted a full seven months, with enthusiastic support from more than 100 carton companies from more than a dozen countries, WCA still got more than 150 exciting case studies collected, of which 60 outstanding cases were successfully shortlisted. After three stages of screening, online voting and scoring by a panel of judges, eight cases stood out.
Innovation Awards
Innovative Design of the Year
Winner：VIRUS REN GUARD PACKAGING
Company：RENGO
Innovative Material of the Year
Winner：Ultra-thin honeycomb panels(3.5mm)
Company：Tongling Xingrui Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd.
Innovative Application of the Year
Winner：OptimPak (two versions)
Company： Tri-Wall (Asia) Pte. Ltd.
Corporate Management Awards
Best Risk Management of the Year
Winner：Detection system to prevent fire in corrugated box plant ( at Cutter Blower)
Company：Thai Containers Group
Intelligent Production of the Year
Winner：Longlide new landmark for high-end intelligent manufacturing
Company：LD Intelligent Technology Co.,Ltd
Business Transformation of the Year
Winner：Jifeng Packaging's Innovative Co-packing Business Model
Company：Pacific Millennium Packaging Group Corporation