For 21 years—longer than many food packaging technologists have been practicing the profession—DuPont has been sponsoring one of several major packaging competitions. Without diminishing in any way the Institute of Packaging Professionals’ AmeriStar contest, the World Packaging Organization’s WorldStar Awards, the Flexible Packaging Association’s Achievement Awards, or the National Paperboard Packaging Competition, it may be observed that the DuPont Awards have the highest profile in the industr…