Over a week before the end of May, the organisers of IAPRI’s 2019 Symposium (11-14 June) at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, announced that more than 100 attendees had already registered for the event.

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

The JP is expected to develop a research project to expand the Institute's activities in the area of Product and Process Innovation, focusing on the composition and microstructure of aluminum sheets for the production of two-piece cans built-in and stretched - DWI, aiming at the establishment of competence and infrastructure for the study of metallography, c...

The Board of the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation and its Selection Committee invite individuals and institutions, globally, to nominate candidates for the Marcus Wallenberg Prize.

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 ...

IAPRI’s diverse membership continues to grow, with the imminent IAPRI Symposium at the University of Twente, the Netherlands (June 11-14), providing a valuable opportunity to meet and get to know at least some of these new members.

Clemson University in the US is advertising a vacancy for the post of Assistant Professor within the Packaging Science degree program.

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.

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.

The Belgian Packaging Institute (IBE-BVI) was established during the 1950s, when plastics was the fastest-growing, and possibly the most exciting, materials sector. Today, environmental concerns are arguably the most significant influence on packaging developments, with plastics the principle target for reduction or elimination.

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.

At the Symposium in June, when we meet at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, I will be stepping down as Vice-President of IAPRI, having served a full three-year term. Even though this is by no means a farewell to IAPRI, it is in a certain way an end to a journey starting for me with my first Conference in Japan in 2006, where I presented a paper on...