A Zoom Conference call meeting of the IAPRI Board of Directors took place on October 16, 2019 from 9:00 am - 10:45 am EST in the US. Here are the main points from the meeting:

The board of directors has accepted a modest increase of $25 to $675. This is the first increase in several years and has been approved to help us cover increased operating costs associated with the new membership management platform and bank fees associated with payment by credit card and wire transfers.

IAPRI Secretary General, Edward Church attended the Seminar of China’s Science and Technology Policy He later attended a reception on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China presented by the Ministry of Science and Technology (State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs) held in the Banquet Hall ...

The IAPRI Board is repeating its invitation made during the June Symposium that member institutes should take advantage of the opportunities offered by both the IAPRI website and the online newsletter to publicise their activities and research, as well as the expertise of individuals in particular areas of packaging science.

Earlier in June, the ‘green lung’ of the University of Twente’s lush campus outside Enschede, the Netherlands, was an appropriate setting for lively debates about sustainability – as well as many other aspects of packaging - as IAPRI’s 29th Symposium got underway. Keynote PowerPoints from Martin de Olde, Chris Bruijnes and Hel&e...

IAPRI’s Leadership Committee is beginning the process of looking for candidates for the IAPRI board. If you are Interested in the that possibility, request the Director Guidelines and Candidate Search Form from Ed Church at sg@iapri.org. We have openings for Full Member and Corporate Member representatives. The deadline to submit the forms is January ...

ISTA is now seeking bids on the following project: Distribution Environment Data Collection Project – European Union. Read More to view RFP.

The Center for Packaging and Unit Load Design (CPULD) at Virginia Tech, USA, has published a white paper entitled ‘Pallets make the world go round’, with the explainer that this examines ‘circular versus linear economies and their effects on the pallet industry’.

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 ...

This role requires the passion, skills, commitment, and vision to lead the long term development of our uniquely diverse teaching, research, extension and other outreach programs. The individual selected will promote and guide new initiatives in a large and diverse department. The position is located on the Clemson University main campus and will be a full-t...

Congrats to 2019 China Packaging Innovation Forum in Shanghai China, 11th-12th, Oct, held by Packaging Innovation Association! CPIF and Packaging Innovation Association were initiated by Dr. Jun Wang from Jiangnan University 4 years ago. This year, there were around 1000 candidates from Upstream and downstream of the whole industrial chain of packaging from ...

Experts from organisations including IAPRI members Safe Load Testing Technologies, Kasetsart University, Lansmont Corporation and the Philippines Department of Science and Technology (DOST) spoke at the 2019 ISTA Asia Pacific Packaging Symposium in Manila, the Philippines, in October.

At October’s K2019 trade fair in Düsseldorf, Germany, Spain’s ITENE used its stand space to demonstrate ways of moving towards a circular economy - as the EU has laid out - by 2030.

Vevey, Switzerland Sep 12, 2019 Nestlé today officially inaugurated the Institute of Packaging Sciences, the first-of-its-kind in the food industry. The new Institute enables Nestlé to accelerate its efforts to bring functional, safe and environmentally friendly packaging solutions to the market and to address the global challenge of plasti...

Fraunhofer IVV in Dresden, Germany, has developed a new device for measuring how easily peelable the ‘peelable’ lidding on thermoformed plastics packaging actually is. The Pack Peel Scan system, which is equipped with machine learning, will be demonstrated at the K 2019 show in Düsseldorf, Germany (16-23 October).

There is a heady blend of the reassuringly well-established and the invigoratingly new at Finland’s Tampere University. On the one hand, the university itself was only created at the beginning of the year, merging as it does Tampere University of Technology and the University of Tampere. With its 20,000 students and 330 professors, this makes it the second largest university in the country.

Many of the research projects and initiatives aimed at improving recycling rates for plastics originate in countries which already have a strong track-record in collecting and recycling packaging polymers such as polyethylene terephthalate (PET). This widespread success with bottle PET has led researchers and businesses to look more closely at possible routes to similar success both with PET in other formats and with other polymers.

The IAPRI Board’s decision this year to change the “symposiums” to Member Conferences and the erstwhile “conferences” to World Conferences has been well received by all members. As briefly discussed by the Secretary General in his comment piece in the July newsletter, this change doesn’t remove symposia from IAPRI’s ...