On 20 September 2024, at the award ceremony of the Pro Carton Young Designers Award competition held in Berlin, Turkey was proud with two important awards. Murat Yasir Dilek won the first prize in the Food & Beverage category and Derya Gök, Gizem Eryılmaz and Ayça Çaylı won the first prize in the Public Voting category. Thus, half of the total four awards distributed came to Turkey.
Selected from a total of 899 projects from 155 universities participating in the competition from 25 European countries, these successful young designers represented Turkey’s talents in the international arena. While Selçuk University student Murat Yasir Dilek achieved a great success in the Food & Beverage category with his innovative design, METU students Derya Gök, Gizem Eryılmaz and Ayça Çaylı won the first prize determined by public voting, showing once again how talented Turkey’s young designers are on the international platform.
We congratulate our young designers who won their awards and their teachers Dr Seda Duman Köylü from Selçuk University and Dr Damla Tönük from Middle East Technical University for their significant achievements. These awards have been an important step in making Turkey’s carton packaging industry and young designers more visible in the international arena.
New horizons in the cardboard packaging industry: ECMA 2025 in Istanbul!
It has been announced that the European Carton Makers Association (ECMA) Congress will be held in Istanbul in 2025. This announcement made by Jean-François Roche, President of ECMA and Alican Duran, Vice President and President of KASAD (Carton Packaging Manufacturers Association) at the end of the 2024 ECMA Congress in Berlin, heralded that the heart of the European carton packaging industry will beat in Istanbul in 2025. The ECMA Congress, which brings together European carton packaging industrialists, draws attention as an important organisation held in a different country in Europe every year. KASAD President Alican Duran, who is also the Vice President of ECMA, said: ‘The fact that the ECMA Congress will be held in Istanbul in 2025 is very proud for our sector and our country. In 2025, the future of the European cardboard packaging industry will be discussed in our country. Our return with 2 awards from the Pro Carton Young Designer Awards competition, which was awarded at the gala night held within the scope of the two-day congress in Berlin, once again revealed Turkey’s potential in the field of design and how young talents stand out in international competitions. We believe that our young designers will achieve greater success in the future.’
