David Eggleston, industry consultant and the environmental advisor to the LINPAC Group, has been awarded an honorary lifetime membership of the Packaging and Films Association (PAFA) after nearly 20 years of support to the industry and its trade association. The award was given at the 2007 annual general meeting of PAFA, which is the newly combined trade association that brings together Packaging and Industrial Films Association (PIFA) and Flexible Packaging Association (FPA).

Making the citation, PAFA chairman Barry Turner said: “David is a stalwart of the industry who has continuously and unselfishly contributed through his enormous wealth of knowledge of environmental impacts and international legislation. This award recognises that, in spite of the pressures of working in a core role for a giant of the industry, he has also played a full part through our trade association in helping the wider world of plastic and film producers and users understand the complex issues which surround our products.”

The announcement of David Eggleston’s award was warmly received by a 200-strong audience from industry, government, trade associates and industry customers at The Savoy in London.

LINPAC is a private, UK-based international manufacturer of consumer and commercial/industrial packaging products, particularly trays and film for fresh and chilled food and materials handling systems. The company is also the largest UK recycler of end-of-life rigid plastics products, a role of which David has played a major part in supporting.