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Caps & Closures: Honey Squeeze Pack recognised for food and sustainable packaging innovation

Victoria, Australia

Following PKN’s announcement of the 2026 PIDA Awards finalists, Caps & Closures is proud to share that Honey Squeeze Pack has been named a finalist in two categories: Food Packaging Design and Sustainable Packaging Design.

The finalist placement recognises more than a new pack format. It highlights the role closure design plays in everyday product performance, particularly in categories where dispensing, cleanliness and repeat use directly shape the consumer experience.

For honey, these details matter.

Honey is naturally viscous, sticky and slow-flowing. It is a product people expect to use with ease, but it can quickly become messy when dispensing is difficult to control. Drips, over-pouring and residue around the closure can create frustration, waste and a poor impression of the product, even when the honey itself is of high quality.

Honey Squeeze Pack was developed to improve this everyday interaction.

Designed for controlled dispensing, the pack helps consumers squeeze and dose honey with greater confidence. It supports a cleaner, more convenient experience across repeated use, helping reduce mess while making the product easier to handle in kitchens, cafés, food service settings and on-the-go occasions.

Its selection as a finalist in Food Packaging Design reflects the importance of packaging that performs beyond the shelf. Food packaging must protect the product, support practical use and suit the realities of daily handling. Honey Squeeze Pack brings these needs together through a functional closure solution designed around the way people actually use honey.

The pack’s finalist placement in Sustainable Packaging Design adds another important layer to the story.

A key design consideration is its recyclable valve material. Many squeeze packs rely on silicone valves, which can create compatibility challenges in recycling streams. Honey Squeeze Pack helps address this by using a valve material designed with recyclability in mind, supporting better material recovery outcomes while maintaining the dispensing performance required for viscous products.

The pack can also be configured with varying levels of post-consumer recycled content to meet customer requirements, including options up to 100% PCR across components. This gives brands flexibility to pursue stronger recycled content targets while still delivering the usability, consistency and product control expected in food packaging.

For Caps & Closures, the nomination reflects a broader approach to packaging innovation: solving practical problems at the point of use while considering how the pack performs across its full lifecycle.

A closure is often one of the smallest components on a pack, but it is also one of the most important. It is the part consumers touch, twist, squeeze, open, close and rely on each time they use the product. When designed well, it can improve usability, reduce waste, support brand perception and contribute to better recovery outcomes.

Honey Squeeze Pack shows how material thinking, functional performance and consumer experience can come together in a single packaging solution. Its recognition at the 2026 PIDA Awards nomination phase is a proud moment for Caps & Closures and a strong reflection of the company’s continued commitment to local packaging innovation.

From food functionality to sustainable design, Honey Squeeze Pack demonstrates that meaningful packaging improvements do not always need to be complex. Sometimes, they begin with the component consumers use most.

www.capsandclosures.com.au

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