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Top 3 Placement for Packaging Student

Rochester, New York, USA - Meet the team behind the innovative packaging design for Grovey Garlic, a sustainable, glue-free hexagon-shaped structure. Students from the College of Art and Design at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) and RIT College of Engineering Technology placed in the top three in the National Paperboard Packaging Alliance Student Design Challenge, competing against 25 teams nationwide. The package’s exterior design, an hexagon-shaped structure inspired by colorful quilting techniques, is made from a 22-point paperboard structure, emphasizing sustainability without the use of glue.

“Packaging is one of the obviously most wastes that gets put into the environment," said Malena Juif, a junior packaging science student, “Being garlic and being lightweight, it was important for me to create something that didn't have glue because it didn't really need it."

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