The submission phase for the German Packaging Award 2025 is now open. Companies, organisations and individuals from Germany and abroad have until 31 May 2025 to submit their innovations and best solutions to Europe’s largest showcase for packaging. The award, organised by the German Packaging Institute (dvi), is decided by an independent jury of experts across all materials and sectors in ten categories. FACHPACK will host a major industry event for the award ceremony.
“Increasing demands of modern societies mean that innovations in packaging are playing an ever more important role. The new solutions not only benefit the economy, but are also an influential factor for people’s quality of life and the protection of our planet. They offer effective and practicable solutions to a range of current challenges such as climate change, increasing resource consumption and the growing demands of modern consumers and economic cycles. Clever, efficient and intelligent packaging safeguards quality of life and paves the way for a sustainable future. That is why we have been promoting innovation with the German Packaging Award for over 60 years. We put the very best solutions in the spotlight and celebrate the people who bring them about,” says Oliver Berndt, Head of Events & Marketing at the dvi at the start of this year’s showcase.
Letter and seal to make your case
“The German Packaging Award is specifically designed as a genuine and transparent showcase,” explains Berndt. Packaging Award winning companies can make a genuine statement and gain that crucial edge in a competitive environment. The award demonstrates their outstanding innovative strength and helps to make a winning case in internal and external communication, with customers, consumers, partners and when recruiting for the best employees. The award is also a great reward for your own team’s work and an extra motivational boost,” says Berndt.
Ten categories
There are ten categories in which products or prototypes can be submitted, ranging from Design, Functionality & Convenience, Product Presentation, Cost Effectiveness and Sustainability to Logistics & Material Flow, New Material, Digitalisation and Packaging Machines (engineering, technology, software). Products can be submitted in several categories at the same time. Pupils, students and trainees have their own special category.
Independent jury and fixed criteria
The jury is made up of a broad-based panel of experts from business, research, education and the media. The jury members scrutinise all entries in person during a two-day meeting. Their assessment is based on fixed, category-specific criteria, which the dvi makes transparent on the German Packaging Award website.
Gold Awards and the award ceremony
The jury also has the option to celebrate particularly pioneering solutions from among the winning innovations with a Gold Award. “The Gold Awards will be announced and presented at a festive awards ceremony at the FACHPACK trade fair. The dvi will also present all the Packaging Award winners as part of this special industry event, honour the representatives of the winning companies and present them with certificates and trophies. Put 23 September 2025 in your diary,” recommends Oliver Berndt, and not just to the participating companies. “We, together with our partners IGEPA group and Sappi as well as our premium partner FACHPACK, cordially invite you”.
The dvi provides all information about participation and access to the submission platform on the websites verpackungspreis.de and packagingaward.de.