SIG and Hill-Smith Family Estates have been recognized with both the Packaging & Design Award and the Sustainability Award at the 2025 Wine Industry Impact Awards for their collaboration to bring Australia’s first recycle-ready, bag-in-box packaging for wine to market.
The dual recognition comes during a landmark year for the Wine Industry Suppliers Association (WISA), which is celebrating 25 years of championing innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence throughout the wine industry.
The transition to a recycle-ready, bag-in-box packaging solution is made possible using a bag made of SIG Terra RecShield, a mono-material film with a newly formulated polymer structure that replaces the conventional multi-layer structure typically used in bag-in-box packaging. This allows the bag, tap, and carton to meet Australia’s recyclability criteria and align with the Sustainable Packaging Guidelines of the Australian Packaging Covenant Organization (APCO) and Australia’s 2025 National Packaging Targets.
In their assessment, the WISA judging panel described the solution as “a landmark advancement for wine packaging sustainability, combining technical excellence, industry collaboration, and measurable environmental benefits to set a new national standard for recyclable design.”
The innovation was developed and manufactured at SIG’s Adelaide facility in close partnership with Winesmiths, a Hill-Smith Family Estates-owned brand and leader in the cask wine category for over four decades.
SIG Group and Hill-Smith Family Estates plan to build on the momentum from the awards as Winesmiths prepares to launch the new recycle-ready pack to Australian shelves in early 2026.
