IPI and Oji Liquid Pak receive the Oji Group CEO Award 2026
IPI and Oji Liquid Pak recognised at the highest level of Oji Group — as OneTeam in the aseptic carton business.
The Oji Group CEO Award, personally assigned by Mr. Hiroyuki Isono, President and CEO of Oji Holdings Corporation, recognises initiatives from across the Group that have made a significant positive impact. Candidates are judged on economic impact, innovation, pioneering spirit and influence across the Group.
For the 2026 edition, the award went to the OneTeam operating as the full-system supplier of aseptic carton packaging within the Group: IPI and Oji Liquid Pak. Kestas Sliuzas, CEO of IPI and Oji Liquid Pak, received it in person from Mr. Isono at Oji Holdings’ headquarters in Tokyo.
Oji Group brings together more than 200 companies worldwide, which makes this recognition especially meaningful for the OneTeam driving the aseptic carton packaging business within the Group.
The reasons behind the recognition and why it matters
The award recognises how the aseptic carton packaging business of Oji Group has grown — and the OneTeam that made it happen.
Working as one team across IPI and Oji Liquid Pak, we have raised quality, lifted productivity and strengthened our sales capability. The business has expanded and become more profitable at the same time. Synergies with the Group’s companies in Europe and Asia, together with a new business foundation in Southeast Asia, have accelerated the growth of Oji’s sustainable packaging business. Above all, we have turned the circular business model at the heart of Oji Group’s industrial vision into the hallmark of our aseptic carton packaging offer on the market.
This is not a one-off acknowledgement. The evaluation looks at each candidate over the past two years, so the award confirms a consistent trajectory rather than a single result. For us, being recognised at this level within a group of the scale and reputation of Oji carries an added weight: it comes at such an early stage of our integration, confirming that the strategy pursued since we joined Oji in 2023 is already delivering tangible results — and that the aseptic carton packaging business plays a strategic role within the wider Oji Group.
The voice of our CEO
Commenting on the recognition, our CEO Kestas Sliuzas said:
“This award is a recognition of the entire OneTeam across IPI and Oji Liquid Pak, and to the wider Oji family. It is the result of what our people do every single day: building trust with customers and partners, taking bold decisions in the field, raising quality, and giving more responsibility to those who are ready to take it. These are the OneTeam values that make our work special — and this recognition proves it.”
He also underlined the wider meaning of the achievement:
“Being recognised at this level, so soon after joining one of the world’s largest paperboard groups, is quite exceptional. It would not have been possible without the trust we have received from Oji Holdings and Oji Europe Management from day one. We are all part of the aseptic OneTeam.”
OneTeam, one direction
For IPI and Oji Liquid Pak, the Oji Group CEO Award 2026 is both a milestone and a starting point. It confirms the value of a business model built on integration, sustainability and collaboration across regions. And it sets the ambition for the next chapters of our journey — with the same OneTeam values that made this recognition possible.
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