Omani students bag awards in Arab regional packaging contest

Energy Monday 28/May/2018 21:55 PM
By: Times News Service
Omani students bag awards in Arab regional packaging contest

Muscat: Three Omani students won the best model award at the Arab regional packaging contest “Arab Student StarPack 2018” in structural packaging and visual packaging categories.
Safiya bint Ali Al Hatmiyah won the best model award in the structural packaging category while Asmaa bint Salem Al Hatmiyah and Juhaina bint Salem Al Yahya’eyah from Ibri won the best model in visual packaging.
The awards will be distributed to winners next May in a special ceremony in Lebanon.
The winners will be qualified for the international competition organised by the World Packaging Organisation.
The competition, organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and LibanPack, in coordination
with the Public Authority for SMEs Development “Riyada,” is one of the specialised packaging competitions at the Arab level.
As more as 860 university students from 10 Arab countries took part in the competition. The number of students participated from the Sultanate stood at 89.