Prizes in packaging from LibanPack for university students

LibanPack organized for the fifth consecutive year an event to commemorate the distribution of prizes to winners of the Lebanon Students Star Pack 2014 competition.  The event was organized yesterday at the UNESCO under the auspices and with the participation of the Minister of Industry, Dr. Hussein Hajj Hassan, and with the support of the Association of Industrialists and UNIDO.
The President of LibanPack, Suha Atallah, noted that this competition was characterized by a higher number of entries from Lebanon and beyond as 500 students from 10 Lebanese universities and 4 Arab universities (from Jordan, Palestine and Egypt) competed.  She noted that this further underscores the importance of this competition as well as the role of the association in raising the awareness of industrialists and farmers on the importance of packaging in improving marketing prospects, in upgrading quality and increasing competitiveness.
The Minister of the Industry, Hajj Hassan, spoke about the important role that packaging plays in boosting the value of products and their comparative advantage notably in terms of food safety.  He also added that Lebanon has high technical capabilities amongst its students which can potentially enable it to become a packaging hub for the Arab world and, in this way, can boost exports rather than the migration of young people.
The winners and their categories included the following:
Hala Toot, from the Lebanese University won the first prize for the skeletal design category, followed by Diana Thebian, from LU as well, Noor Abu Shaqra, from LAU, while Rudy Khuri also from LAU won the UniPack Prize for Innovation. In the visual design category, Nabil Haidar from Rafic Hariri University won the first place, followed by Jean Rizk, from AUST and Lina Haydar from LIU.
Source: Al-Safir, Al-Mustaqbal 14 May 2014