The IAPRI Member Meeting will be held after the conclusion of the Symposium lunch on Friday June 14, 2019. All members are invited, only full members may vote.

Three current directors and three new directors will serve three-year terms beginning June 14, 2019.

Thanks to the sponsorship of Dr. Paul Singh there will be a new award presented at the symposium at the University of Twente. It will be called the IAPRI CAREER START AWARD. The purpose of the Award is to provide a packaging researcher, who has not yet participated at a IAPRI Conference, with the incentive to be a first time research paper presenter...

IAPRI’s four Working Groups will meet on June 11th according to the following schedule and agendas

In a clear demonstration that IAPRI member organisations and individual researchers remain as keen as ever to present their work to their peers, the organisers of the June 2019 Symposium at the University of Twente, the Netherlands (11-14 June), have confirmed that they received over 110 submissions for papers, and have distilled this to a total of 70 oral p...

Swiss-based IAPRI member Omya has inaugurated a new Technology Center in Singapore, with the aim of working with customers, principals and local research organisations to help resolve technical challenges and develop innovative products for the Asian market. The Omya Technology Center Singapore (OTCS) saw its official opening on 14 March 2019, with 60...

IAPRI announces the 29th Symposium on Packaging Awards Competition sponsored by Lansmont Corporation. IAPRI will award three scientists prizes at the Symposium being held June 11-14 at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands.

IAPRI researchers, are you currently listed in the IAPRI Researcher Directory? This is where companies or people can search for a packaging researcher with expertise within a specific area of interest. If you are the primary contact or an additional contact at an IAPRI member institute you too can be listed in the IAPRI Research Directory under up to five ...

The Fraunhofer IVV institute in Dresden is one of the partners in a project aiming to develop thin-film sensors to monitor the heat-sealing process for plastics films, very close to those films and nearly in real-time. Over the next couple of months, with sister institute Fraunhofer IWM (Werkstoffmechanik – Material Mechanics) and the German Indust...

Clemson University has appointed Dustin Wills the director of its Sonoco FRESH initiative, which operates within the Sonoco Institute of Packaging Design and Graphics and aims to develop packaging solutions to address global issues of food waste and loss.

IAPRI member Safe Load Testing Technologies, Spain, has supplied German test and research institute BFSV with a clamp tester which, Safe Load explains, is essential for the ISTA 6-Amazon test protocol – making BFSV one of the few organisations which can offer this test and complete the new protocol.

Japanese IAPRI member Shinyei Testing Machinery Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Thailand Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (TISTR) with a view to working together on transport packaging issues within Thailand.

Luis Madi, researcher and director at Brazil’s ITAL food technology institute, delivered a presentation at the Anufood Brazil show, Sao Paulo, in mid-March regarding successful strategies across packaging and food science for combating food waste.

The Instituto Argentino del Envase (IAE – Argentine Packaging Institute) is the joint organiser, with Envases y Embalaje Peru SAC (Packs & Packaging Peru) of the Latin American Packaging Seminar, to be held on 9 June 2019 in Lima, Peru.

Print & Packaging at Ryerson University, Canada

It is no surprise that a significant amount of research being presented for the first time at June’s IAPRI Symposium focuses on sustainability in packaging, whether in terms of the properties and performance of materials or the behaviour and perceptions of consumers. Less obviously, though, there are changes underway in how and where this research is being targeted.

On top of the usual three days of high-caliber oral presentations running across three parallel streams, this summer’s IAPRI Symposium, hosted by the University of Twente, Netherlands (11-14 June 2019) is offering many additional highlights.