BPF and ARMO Launch Student Design Competition

As part of the ARMO 2015 event taking place from 13th – 15th September 2015, the British Plastics Federation is launching a student design competition that is open to all UK and International design students, with financial prizes for the winner of each category and a six month work placement as well as a financial prize for the overall winner

The design challenge for this competition is to create a product that demonstrates an appreciation of the many advantages of rotational moulding

The categories for the event are; Our Green Environment, Illumination and At Leisure. The judging for this competition will be based on research, commerciality, process consideration, execution, design thinking, relevance to the theme and originality

Each category winner will receive a prize of £750 and the overall winner will also be awarded £1,000 and a six month work placement. The overall prize winner is kindly sponsored by Balmoral Tanks. The work placement and ‘Our Green Environment’ category are kindly sponsored by Kingspan Environmental whilst the ‘illumination’ category is sponsored by Tecni-form and the ‘At leisure’ category is sponsored by Gordon Ellis.

All entries for the competition must be received by 3rd April 2015.

The winning entries for all categories will be announced on the 22nd May 2015

All students interested in this competition should visit http://bit.ly/ARMOstudentdesign
 
Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Paul Baxter of the BPF Events team, email [email protected] , tel 0207 457 5047.
 

 
For all media enquiries, BPF logos and images please contact Laura Hindley, Communications and Industrial Issues Executive on [email protected] or 0207 457 5043.

Notes for editors:

1. The British Plastics Federation (BPF) is the UK trade association for the plastics industry – representing the whole supply chain including polymer producers, distributors, additives suppliers, machinery manufacturers, processors and recyclers.