| Innovation Category | Recognition Date | Recognition Path | Company Name | Innovation Trade Name |
| Additive | June 22, 2021 | Critical Guidance | Kraton Corporation | CirKular+™ C2000 and CirKular+™ C3000 performance enhancing additives up to 5% loading |
| Barrier materials | June 12, 2023 | Critical Guidance | Colgate-Palmolive | CP-NH-Lean and CP-HUH-Lean HDPE laminated tubes w/ <5% EVOH |
| Barrier materials | June 12, 2023 | Critical Guidance | L’Occitane-En-Provence | Hand Cream Tube 30ml made w/ ALBEA Greenleaf Gen2 and HDPE closure |
| Barrier materials | June 6, 2023 | Critical Guidance | Avery Dennison | Metallized decoration films w/ AD CleanFlake™ Technology |
| Barrier materials | May 25, 2023 | Critical Guidance | Kim Pack Company | Kim Pai Go Green 300 HDPE tube w/ 5% or less EVOH |
| Barrier materials | April 13, 2023 | Critical Guidance | Shenzhen Beauty Star | Extruded HDPE Tubes with or without EVOH (with less than 4.1% EVOH) and with or without HDPE Closures |
| Barrier materials | January 13, 2023 | Critical Guidance | BP Polymers | Kortrax® Barrier Resin |
| Barrier materials | November 2, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Amcor Flexibles China | Ecocare HDPE 250/15 tubes w/ up to 5% EVOH |
| Barrier materials | October 21, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Albea | Extruded plastic tubes for Colgate Hello incorporating low melt flow HDPE resin in the tube body and shoulder and an NIR-sortable colorant for tubes pigmented black |
| Barrier materials | September 22, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Albea | Timeless tubes |
| Barrier materials | August 30, 2022 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Kim Pack Company | Kim Pai Go Green 210 tubes |
| Barrier materials | August 17, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Glenroy | Recyclable Standcap tubes |
| Barrier materials | August 15, 2022 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | EPL Limited | Platina Pro ME tubes |
| Barrier materials | August 15, 2022 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | EPL Limited | Platina Pro Vision tubes |
| Barrier materials | January 12, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Hoffmann Neopac AG | Polyfoil® MMB Tubes with and without thin film metallization |
| Barrier materials | January 5, 2022 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare | Greenleaf Gen2 tubes with 5.5% EVOH barrier addition, low melt 1661 shoulder, without closure, and decorated with UV-cured printing |
| Barrier materials | January 5, 2022 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Albea S.A. | Printed extruded HDPE tube with low melt flow HDPE flip-top cap |
| Barrier materials | September 7, 2021 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | San Ying Packaging | Ever Green 01 decorated HDPE tube with less than 1% vinyl alcohol-based coating barrier layer |
| Barrier materials | August 28, 2021 | Critical Guidance | Rego Packaging (GZ) | ECO ERA MONO PBL tube w/ < 5% vinyl alcohol-based barrier layer system and HDPE closure |
| Barrier materials | June 28, 2021 | Critical Guidance | CCL Tube | Eco Vision direct printed PE tube with 5% and less EVOH and HDPE closure |
| Barrier materials | June 17, 2021 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Kim Pack Company, Ltd. | Kim Pai Go Green decorated HD-PBL 220/11 HDPE/LLDPE tube w/ 3.7% or less EVOH |
| Barrier materials | June 17, 2021 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Kim Pai Lamitube Company Limited | Kim Pai Go Green decorated HD-PBL EV15-350 HDPE/LLDPE tube, w/ 3.4% or less EVOH |
| Barrier materials | December 14, 2020 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Polyplastics USA, Inc. | High gloss HDPE container with 20% cyclic olefin copolymer (TOPAS® 8007F-600 COC) outer-layer |
| Barrier materials | March 22, 2021 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare | Platina 2515 decorated HDPE tube w/ 5% or less EVOH |
| Barrier materials | December 1, 2020 | Critical Guidance | EPL Limited | Platina 250 decorated HDPE tube w/ 5% or less EVOH and HDPE closure |
| Barrier materials | May 7, 2021 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Kim Pack Company, Ltd. | Kim Pai Go Green 300, 350, and 380 HDPE decorated tube w/ 3.9% or less EVOH and PP closure |
| Barrier materials | October 1, 2020 Updated March 4, 2021 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Kim Pack Company, Ltd. | Kim Pai Go Green 250 HDPE metallized and decorated tube w/ 4.4% or less EVOH and PP closure |
| Barrier materials | August 24, 2020 | Critical Guidance | Essel Propack Limited | Platina PRO 220 series and Platina PRO 250 series |
| Barrier materials | March 31, 2020 | Critical Guidance | Essel Propack Limited | Platina 400 and GML 300 HDPE tubes |
| Barrier materials | June 21, 2019 Updated March 2, 2020 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Inhance Technologies | Enkase™ fluorination coating |
| Barrier materials | December 10, 2019 | Critical Guidance | Living Proof | HDPE bottle with 10% or less clear ethylene/propylene thermoplastic polyolefin outer layer |
| Barrier materials | December 6, 2019 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Albea S.A. | Greenleaf Generation 2 |
| Barrier materials | September 10, 2019 | Critical Guidance | Essel Propack Limited | Platina 250 and Green GML 300 HDPE tubes |
| Barrier materials | June 21, 2019 | Applications Guidance | Inhance Technologies | FluoroSeal® fluorination coating |
| Barrier materials | June 10, 2009 | Applications Guidance | Naked Juice and PepsiCo | Multilayer container consisting of homopolymer HDPE, EVOH, and a material tie layer |
| Barrier, Label Inks, Attachments | April 28, 2020 | Critical Guidance | Colgate-Palmolive | Samson Tube |
| Barrier, Label Inks, Attachments | April 9, 2019 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Colgate-Palmolive | Samson Tube |
| Black and Dark Colors | November 1, 2022 | Preferred Design (MPG) | Avient Corporation | OnColor™ NIR Sortable Colorants |
| Closures & Dispensers | December 19, 2022 | Preferred Design (MPG) | Silgan Dispensing Systems | SP05™R, SP05™R CR, and VersaPlast®R trigger sprayers |
| Closures & Dispensers | November 2, 2022 | Preferred Design (MPG) | Tianzhou Packaging | Gong 1 series 100% PP pump and Gong 1 series all polyolefin pump |
| Closures & Dispensers | November 2, 2022 | Preferred Design (MPG) | Foshan ColorPump | M20 all PP dispensing pump and M40 all PP dispensing pump |
| Closures & Dispensers | November 2, 2022 | Preferred Design (MPG) | Guangzhou Sungoing | Dual spring mono material airless pump |
| Closures & Dispensers | November 2, 2022 | Preferred Design (MPG) | CLC Group | Full Plastic series all polyolefin pumps for HDPE, PP and PET containers |
| Closures & Dispensers | September 1, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Silgan Dispensing Systems | ReVive™2cc and ReVive™4cc all-polyolefin dispensing pumps for HDPE and PET bottles |
| Closures & Dispensers | December 8, 2021 | Preferred Design (MPG) | Hana Innovation America | HANA’s globally-patented ECOHELIX 100% polypropylene dispensing pumps for PET, HDPE and PP containers |
| Closures & Dispensers | December 8, 2021 | Preferred Design (MPG) | APackaging Group | APackaging Group’s Infinity Pump Series™ all-polyolefin lotion pumps for HDPE and PET bottles |
| Closures & Dispensers | August 30, 2021 | Preferred Design (MPG) | Aptar Beauty + Home | Aptar’s Future all-PE pump for HDPE and PET bottles |
| Closures & Dispensers | August 10, 2021 | Critical Guidance | APackaging Group | APG Infinity Pump Series Pump |
| Closures & Dispensers | May 10, 2021 | Critical Guidance | Aptar | SimpleCycle™ TPE valves with proper closures for PET, HDPE, and PP bottles |
| In-Mold Labels | November 1, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Polyart | Uncoated Polyart for IML and pressure sensitive labelling applications and Coated Polyart for pressure sensitive and non-pressure sensitive labelling applications |
| In-Mold Labels | July 18, 2021 | Critical Guidance & Bottle-to-Bottle | Yupo Corporation | YUPO® white polyolefin in-mold-label (IML) unprinted/undecorated substrates for HDPE bottles |
| Label Inks | June 16, 2016 | Critical Guidance | Plastipak | Four color Direct Object Printing™ up to 70% coverage |
| Label Inks | October 17, 2014 | Critical Guidance | Plastipak | Two color Direct Object Printing™ with 0.6% and less surface coverage |
| PS Labels/adhesives | November 1, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Polyart | Uncoated Polyart for IML and pressure sensitive labelling applications and Coated Polyart for pressure sensitive and non-pressure sensitive labelling applications |
| PS Labels/adhesives | January 4, 2023 | Critical Guidance | Mactac | White and clear BOPP film w/ Pressure Sensitive Hot Melt CHILL AT adhesive and Acrylic Emulsion ST95 Adhesive |
| PS Labels/adhesives | April 6, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Avery Dennison | CleanFlake™ Technology that enables recycling for General Purpose & Beverage applications on PET & HDPE |
| PS Labels/adhesives | May 24, 2021 | Critical Guidance | Green Bay Packaging | GreenCycle™ 018CT, 26WCT, 023WT, and 024TL w/ 102 adhesive |
| PS Labels/adhesives | May 21, 2021 | Critical Guidance | FLEXcon Company, Inc. | optiFLEX® ecoFOCUS™ clear w/ V-127RE adhesive |
| PS Labels/adhesives | December 18, 2020 | Critical Guidance | Avery Dennison | PE, PE/PP polyolefin blend, and BOPP substrates w/ GPP acrylic adhesive |
| PS Labels/adhesives | December 17, 2020 | Critical Guidance | UPM Raflatac | PE and PP pressure sensitive labels with general purpose acrylic adhesive |
| PS Labels/adhesives | July 20, 2020 | Critical Guidance | Avery Dennison | BOPP Film with Pressure Sensitive Acrylic Emulsion Adhesive |
| PS Labels/adhesives & Shrink Labels | October 12, 2020 | Critical Guidance | Multi-Color Corp. | Polypropylene labels: gravure printed, wax coated substrate, heat transfer label; flexo printed, wax coated substrate, heat transfer label; gravure printed white in-mold label with EVA adhesive; flexo printed, clear pressure sensitive label with 10126 or 13733 acrylic adhesive; and flexo printed, white pressure sensitive label with 104495 acrylic adhesive plus a gravure printed, polyolefin shrink film label |
| Sleeve Labels | September 24, 2021 | Critical Guidance | American Fuji Seal | American Fuji Seal’s Alpha PO shrink film (FVX2-05) and solvent based ink system for shrink sleeve labels on HDPE bottles |
| Sleeve Labels | June 27, 2021 | Critical Guidance | Taghleef Industires | Taghleef Industries’ undecorated Shape360® TDS shrink sleeve film substrate for HDPE bottles |
| Sleeve Labels | June 25, 2021 | Critical Guidance | Henan Yinjinda New Material Co., Ltd. (China) | YMR PETG or YBRS hybrid films (PETG/OPS co-extruded and bi-axially oriented) shrink sleeve substrates for HDPE bottles |
| Tube, Closure | May 10, 2022 | Critical Guidance | Huhtamaki | blueloop® tube HD 220 laminate tube with HDPE shoulder and cap (tube by Zalesi) |
| Tube, Closure | February 1, 2022 | Critical Guidance | La Cazadora | RECYTUBE |
| Tube, Barrier material | September 17, 2020 | Critical Guidance | Berry Global | HDPE and LLDPE, 7.6% or less ethylene vinyl alcohol barrier layer and tie layer, direct printed |
| Tube, Barrier material, Closure | February 26, 2021 | Critical Guidance | TUPACK Verpackungen GmbH | Decorated tube, without and with < 5% EVOH and maleated polyolefin tie layer and HDPE closure |
| Tube, Barrier material, Label, Closure | October 5, 2021 | Critical Guidance | Shenzhen Beauty Star | Beauty Star 3% and less EVOH decorated HDPE tube and HDPE closure |
