History of the Horners Award

Past Horners Winners

Rules of Entry

Downloadable Entry Form

Horners Award

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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2011 Winner: Cycloc - designed by Andrew Lang Product Design Ltd

The judging panel for this year’s Horners Award were greatly impressed by the overall design concept of the winning entry, The “Cycloc” a stylish wall mounted bicycle storage system – designed by Andrew Lang Product Design Ltd. The product designed by ‘stunningly simple and attractive’ wall mounted bicycle storage system enables a wide variety of bicycle styles to be stored, suspended from either the frame or the seat posts. Cycloc matured the product into an injection moulded product in 2010 to supply mass market demand and to date 95% of the Cyloc’s production is exported globally, with its main markets extending as far as Australia, North America and Europe.

The product has already been awarded several distinguished

History of the Horners Bottlemakers Award

Past Bottlemakers Winners

Rules of Entry

Downloadable Entry Form

Horners Bottlemakers Award

In 1467 The Worshipful Company of Horners' merged with the Bottlemakers Company (who made bottles from leather) and in October 2002, at the Interplas Exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham, they announced a new annual Award for Bottlemaking. Entries for this award must be a plastic bottle, jar or hollow container, made by any process including extrusion blow, injection blow, injection stretch blow, injection moulding, rotational moulding or vacuum forming.

The entry must have significant UK content in Design, Materials or Manufacture and a proven record of commercial success.The annual Award consists of a leather bottle made in this century by traditional methods, flanked by two silver-rimmed horn beakers, all mounted on an oak plinth. The Award that the winner retains is a smaller leather bottle, also mounted on an oak plinth which is suitably engraved.

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2011 Winner: Retortable Barrier Jar

The winner of this year’s Bottlemakers Award was judged to be the RPC Containers Corby’s Retortable Barrier Jar. The jar is part of RPC’s enhanced range of retortable barrier plastic jars for catering applications which combine a mix of food-safe, long-life and lightweight food storage. RPC use a unique construction of thermic ribs which facilitate expansion and contraction during the heating and cooling stages. The products wide-mouth neck and robust shape means that they can easily be hot-filled and processed using existing machinery.

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