The Horners Award for Plastics Innovation & Design

History of the Horners Award

Past Horners Award Winners

Rules of Entry

Downloadable Entry Form

The prestigious Horners Award is run jointly with the BPF and the Worshipful Company Of Horners (an ancient guild and livery company of the City of London) and is awarded for innovation in plastics design and manufacture or in the processing of plastics.

The prestigious award is believed to be the longest established Design Award for Plastics in the world. It is a cornerstone of the Horners many activities supporting Design and Education in the Plastics Industry. The first competition was held in 1947, attracting some 14 entries. Since that point the award has gone from strength to strength.

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Simon Nicholls (Omlet Ltd), Designer of the “Beehaus”: The Beehaus is specially designed for keeping bees in your garden or rooftop. Developed using a range of plastic materials and technologies to provide your bees with a safe, modern home in which to live it makes beekeeping straightforward and fun.

The Beehaus was developed using modern plastics materials to provide bees with a safe, modern home in which to live and makes beekeeping straightforward and fun.

The judges of this year’s Award were greatly impressed by the Omlet Beehaus due to its use of plastics materials to benefit the environment and to address a topical issue, the decline in bee populations. Moreover, Omlet is the first company in the history of the Award to have won twice, having received the Award in 2004 for their ‘Eglu’ plastics Chicken Coop