Asia CanTech 2025 award winners announced

The 2025 edition of the Asia CanTech Awards was announced on 7 October at the Royal Orchid Sheraton hotel in Bangkok, Thailand.

The illustrious ceremony took place during Asia CanTech’s gala dinner, and saw nine category awards presented, with two highly commended certificates presented, as well as the coveted Supreme Cup. Winners joined Bell Publishing’s editor, Alex Rivers and director, Neil McRitchie, on stage to celebrate their excellence in can making. 

Read on to discover the winners…

Aerosols WINNER

Crown: US-40

This spray can by Crown Food Packaging Thailand features an overvarnish textured finish and a striking visual appearance. This effect, combined with a metallic ink, gives the aerosol can a unique look that our judges praised.

Beverage two-piece WINNER

Asia Can Manufacturing: Carabao Energy Drink

The Carabao Cup can successfully bridge the gap between the fusion of sports  sponsorship, consumer engagement, premium innovative packaging, dynamic sports-driven design, excellent print precision and seamless integration of branding and artwork.

The high-gloss finish and precision detailing on this energy drink can ensures the design stands out, reinforcing the brand’s connection to football culture.

Beverage three-piece WINNER

ORG: Five Star Beer

Using advanced digital embossing, the artistic features on this traditional Chinese design create bold artistry that impressed our judges. Centred on the five traditional Chinese gods of Fortune, Prosperity, Longevity, Happiness and Wealth and embossed with traditional motifs like “ruyi” (sceptre of good fortune) and “xiangyun” (auspicious clouds), this design is highly elegant and aesthetic.

Beverage ends WINNER

Xiamen Baofeng: Colour Splash End

These aluminium easy-open ends (EOEs) boast a vibrant, colourful surface design that seamlessly blends aesthetic appeal with reliability for today’s can making demands—with their visual charm made possible through a cost-smart printing choice tailored for scale. 

Baofeng leverages offset printing for the colourful design, a choice that delivers significant value – according to the company, offset printing will dramatically lower the cost compared to digital printing when the volume is large, ensuring the vibrant aesthetics don’t come with prohibitive expenses even for mass production. 

Beverage ends HIGHLY COMMENDED

BNM: BevSnap Peel-Off End

This innovative lid design prevents snagging for effortless and safe access to beverages. Users need only pull the small tap provided to smoothly peel back the soft aluminium foil lid.

General line WINNER

Tinpak: Khabt Bop 1

This design was favoured by the judges due to the consumer appeal of the embossed serving tray that comes as an extra inside this tea caddy, which adds both convenience and functionality to the product. Additionally, to ensure maximum freshness, the can is equipped with a lever lid and inner membrane seal (tagger) which together provide effective protection against light, moisture and air. This can combines practical design and premium aesthetics.

Food two-piece WINNER

ORG: Diamond Bowl

This can body is crafted from laminated tinplate and expertly shaped using shallow-drawing technology, which ensures the product is pressure-resistant and sustainable. The diamond-cut design also offers sealing and light-blocking properties.

Food three-piece WINNER

Shenzhen Daman Packaging: Yili Satine Organic Formula

This can primarily uses a palette of light green, beige, and gold, echoing the brand’s natural pasture concept and conveying a sense of organic quality and health. The can body employs special printing techniques to highlight aesthetic appeal. The Mongolian ger (yurt) design features a silver foil stamping process. The river, outer ring, and text utilise a transparent laser holographic process, which was highly praised by our judges. The grassland and leaves are treated with a tactile (raised) printing process, giving them a three-dimensional effect both visually and to the touch.

Food ends WINNER

Enpack: 73mm EOE

This features a new and improved design for Enpack’s easy open end offerings, following extensive market research, testing and customer feedback.

The tab has historically and intentionally been designed in such a way as to withstand the rigors of customer processing and can handling.  However, Enpack decided to look at the challenges of opening the end through the lens of the consumer. The team saw that the initial tab lift from the centre panel was not easy. By creating a small emboss below the tab, Enpack has improved finger access and the overall opening experience of the consumer. 

Food ends HIGHLY COMMENDED

Worunda Metal Packaging: Optimised end

This end features structural optimisation to address the limitations of traditional flat ends in both appearance and cost. The surface adopts a unique embossed pattern combined with a concave design, which effectively enhances the overall three-dimensionality and visual fullness of the can body, improving shelf recognition and consumer appeal.

Household WINNER

Xclusive Can: Autoprime Paint Remover

This rectangular can that uses multicolour UV metal offset printing to enhance visual appeal and brand differentiation. The shape of this tinplate packaging sets the product apart from conventional cylindrical formats. The can is corrosion-resistant, product-safe and built for durability.

SUPREME WINNER

Xiamen Baofeng: Colour Splash End

The judges were impressed by the detail and vibrancy offered on these ends, which present a real step forward in customisation.

Congratulations to all our 2025 winners!