Aluminium Plates Sustainable Revolution by Contital Srl is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2020 Bronze A' Design Award in Disposable and Single-Use Product Design Competition Category.
BronzeSingle-Use Product· 2020
Aluminium Plates Sustainable Revolution
by Contital Srl
Client: Contital Srl
Bronze A' Design Award Winner in Single-Use Product Category
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About Aluminium Plates Sustainable Revolution
Aluminium Plates is a range of disposable plates made from fully recycled aluminium. The range is intended for the catering industry, mass market retailers and consumers. The plates are produced with a patented cold moulding process, using an alloy of class 8000 with a thickness between 60 and 90 microns. Several sizes and shapes are offered, and each plate can be lacquered in any colour, inside and outside. The plates suit traditional and microwave ovens, freezing, serving and acid or salty foods. After use, the plates can be fully recycled.
The Recognition
About the Bronze A' Design Award
Aluminium Plates Sustainable Revolution is a Bronze A' Design Award winner, a highly prestigious recognition granted to outstanding designs distinguished by creativity, ingenuity, and astuteness. Bronze winners are amply skillful and strikingly creative artifacts that authenticate the vast experience, imagination, and resourcefulness of their designers. Aluminium Plates Sustainable Revolution is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished object that is notably professional and innovative. This Bronze A' Design Award-winning design incorporates best practices in art, science, design, and technology, and is excellent for its attention to detail. Aluminium Plates Sustainable Revolution splendidly satisfies needs, touches desires, charms feelings, and appeals to curiosity.
Interviews
Design Interview
What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
The product has been conceived to satisfy the need of disposable plates since the widespread traditional plastic plates (neither recyclable nor biodegradable-compostable) are going to be dismissed due to the EU Directive 2019/904 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment.
What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
Aluminium plates are manufactured with a particular design that: minimizes transport space, optimizes product display on stores shelves, enhances the lightness of the product. The product has been developed with specific technical characteristics to ensure strength despite the low thickness and to withstand the stress of transportation, sealing and storage.
Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
The product range can be one of the solutions for wholesalers and catering chains searching for a viable eco-friendly alternative
Behind the Design
Press Kit
Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.
- Unique Properties
- Aluminium plates are an eco-friendly alternative to non-recyclable disposable plates, conceived for catering industry, Mass Market Retailers and consumers. They come in different sizes and shapes and they can contain all kind of foods, including acid and salty ones. A peculiar feature is that they allow heating in both traditional and microwave ovens, freezing and deep freezing, serving and consuming food. Plates can be lacquered in any colour (even different in the internal and external sides).
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Plates are made of an aluminium alloy of class 8000, with a thickness between 60 and 90 microns. Dimensions vary depending on the specific plate, but they are in line with similar products (made of different materials) already on the market.
- Tags
- aluminium, recyclable, plate,
- Production Technology
- The product is patented by Contital Srl through a cold-moulding process. The alloy is made with 100% of recycled aluminium.
- Design Challenge
- The hardest part of the project has been to develop a product with specific technical characteristics to ensure strength despite the low thickness and to withstand the stress of transportation, sealing and storage.
- Inspiration
- The product goes on the market to satisfy the need of disposable plates since the widespread traditional plastic plates (neither recyclable nor biodegradable-compostable) are going to be dismissed due to the EU Directive 2019/904 on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment. Being aluminium 100% recyclable, the product range can be one of the solutions for wholesalers and catering chains searching for a viable eco-friendly product.
- Project Duration
- Project started in January 2019, and the product has been officially launched at Fiera Marca in Bologna, 15-16 January 2020.
- Operation Flow
- Aluminium plates can be used in ovens even with temperature over 200°C.
After use they can be thrown on the recycling bin (according to the national regulations), to be fully recycled. - Patents
- Patent filed by Contital Srl on 10/10/2019 with filing application number 102019000018446
- Team Members
- Contital Srl
Laminazione Sottile S.p.A.
Italcoat S.r.l.
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