The 2025 Pharmapack Awards: recognising innovation and patient centricity

This year in Paris the Pharmapack Awards recognised the achievements across categories in the industry, aswell as including some new categories to highlight exceptional work and people.
Drug Delivery Innovation
This category aims to recognise innovative approaches to safe and effective drug administration, across ophthalmic, parenteral, oral, respiratory, transdermal, and topical drug delivery solutions.
SHL Medical redefines possibilities with the Elexy™, a versatile and reusable electromechanical autoinjector.
In a statement the winners said:
“We are truly honored to receive this recognition from Pharmapack Awards. As our first electromechanical autoinjector, Elexy is born from our commitment to advancing patient care. It reflects our ability to adapt and adjust to market changes. With more than 35 years of industry experience, we remain at the forefront of innovation, continually leveraging our wealth of expertise to support technological advancements in the injectable drug delivery industry and enable patients’ independence.”
Packaging Innovation
This category aims to recognise innovation in technologies, products, materials, and services relating to primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging solutions for finished drug forms.
Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Company, Inc. introduces the best vials for cell and gene therapy products stored with dry ice and liquid nitrogen.
The winning company wanted to say:
"We thank the organiser and panel of judges very much for choosing OXYCAPT multilayer plastic vial for the award of packaging innovation. We are honored to receive such an excellent award. We believe our unique OXYCAPT is the best vial for cell gene therapy products stored in dry ice or liquid nitrogen vapor phase. We will continuously make efforts to live up to expectations from the pharmaceutical industry."
Start-Up Innovation Award
This award looks to celebrate and promote those companies who are leading the way for the future of packaging. We want to recognise and celebrate the achievements of small or micro enterprises who have had a great idea, spotted the opportunity and taken the risks to launch a new product or service.
Active Label SrL earns recognition for their groundbreaking "Active Label" technology.
"It is an honor to be recognised with the Start-Up Innovation Award at this year’s Pharmapack Awards. This achievement reflects the dedication and innovative spirit of the entire Active Label team. Our solution, which enables precise and sustainable temperature and time monitoring, is designed to enhance safety, reduce waste, and provide significant value across pharmaceutical supply chains. Winning this award validates our vision to revolutionise cold chain monitoring with an approach that combines precision, adaptability, and cost-efficiency.
We are happy to celebrate this milestone with the Pharmapack community and look forward to continuing our work in providing innovative solutions that meet the critical needs of industries dependent on secure and reliable cold chain systems."
Eco-Design Award
Recognising products and solutions which prioritise recyclability, environmental awareness, and a reduced carbon footprint.
Huhtamaki wins for Omnilock™ Ultra PAPER, showcasing innovative sustainable packaging.
Huktamaki commented on their win:
"We are thrilled to announce that we have won the Eco Design Award at Pharmapack 2024 for our innovative Omnilock™ Ultra PAPER, marking a significant advancement in sustainable packaging.
This fully recyclable, heat-sealable paper solution is designed to replace traditional non-recyclable multi-layer laminates while ensuring outstanding barrier performance. Crafted with FSC-certified fibers and backed by certifications from CEPI and OPRL, Omnilock™ Ultra PAPER establishes a new benchmark for eco-friendly packaging, merging high performance with sustainability."
Patient-Centric Design
For this award, the jury members are looking for entries that are designed to improve safety, experience and adherence for the patient or caregiver.
UCB Pharma debuts a new patient-centric pack for BIMZELX 160mg autoinjectors designed for the U.S. market.
UCB stated:
"The voice of the patients has been the driver of the design of our BIMZELX 160mg injection in autoinjector pack. UCB included patients at every step of the design process. This new BIMZELX 160mg injection in autoinjector pack incorporates a lot of new packaging features that shift the paradigm of pharmaceutical packaging based on actionable insights collected, most of them focusing on patient experience-adherence and improved labelling.
As UCB packaging development Teams, we aim at transforming packaging (unboxing) experience through differentiated, innovative, patient-centric, eco-friendly designs, and at improving all aspects of patient interaction with our ideated packaging solutions."
Woman of the Year
An award to recognise women leaders in pharma packaging. This category celebrates those who seek to inspire and uplift colleagues and peers, are committed to supporting diversity and inclusion and act as an advocate for progression and change in the pharma packaging sector.
Asmita Khanolkar of SMC Ltd. is honored as the Woman of the Year.
Asmita continually works to inspire women and girls in the industry, starting from education to recognition, states that she will continue to support women and minorties to gain the recognition in the industry that they deserve.




Related News
-
News Pharmapack 2025: From the Floor in Paris
Pharmpack gears up for another week in Paris at the Porte De Versailles. The two-day show taking place on the 22–23 January, will cover contract packaging, device innovation, and sustainability among other topics. -
News Visibility, Integration, and Opportunity with CPOs: A Pharmapack Interview
At Pharmapack 2025 in Paris the informative content tracks this year will feature a Contract Packaging track. A critically important topic for those working in the field, which speaker Alexander Schäfer from Sharp Services discusses in the fo... -
News Pharmapack Sustainability Partner Interview: Sustainable blister packaging
At Pharmapack we are increasingly aiming to bring sustainability into the event, into the conversations people have, into the content we present and into the running of the show itself. This year we are working with a number of Sustainability Partners ...
Position your company at the heart of the global Pharma industry with a CPHI Online membership
-
Your products and solutions visible to thousands of visitors within the largest Pharma marketplace
-
Generate high-quality, engaged leads for your business, all year round
-
Promote your business as the industry’s thought-leader by hosting your reports, brochures and videos within your profile
-
Your company’s profile boosted at all participating CPHI events
-
An easy-to-use platform with a detailed dashboard showing your leads and performance