The Institute of Food Technology (ITAL) opens applications for the selection of candidates for a Young Researcher (JP) scholarship in the research area of Food Chemical Contaminants arising from the migration from packaging materials. The JP should develop a research project to expand the Institute's activities in the area of Food Safety and Health,...

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.

New Austrian IAPRI member FH Campus Wien has contributed its own response to the EU’s Circular Economy Package in the shape of a Circular Packaging Design Guideline.

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...

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...

IAPRI’s Leadership Committee is looking for candidates for the board. If you are Interested in the that possibility, request the Director Guidelines and Candidate Search Form at sg@iapri.org. We have openings for Full Member and Corporate Member representatives. The deadline to submit the forms is February 8th, 2019.

Arguably, research and education are all about exchange – whether of information or experience. So it is no coincidence that one of the prime objectives of the new IAPRI website is to facilitate knowledge exchange between member institutes and the individuals who work in these areas.

IAPRI is pleased to introduce a new website and association management software platform and we are requesting your help in the transition.

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

The MSU SoP is seeking a dynamic individual with academic and/or industry experience as well as outstanding record of achievements.

VTT, Finland, won in the ‘Bio-based packaging’ category of the Packaging Europe Sustainability Awards 2018, held in Gothenburg, Sweden, in late October, adding to its success with the structure in question.

IAPRI’s three current Working Groups (WGs) met in Zhuhai to address important issues, while the creation of a new WG concerned with Active & Intelligent (A&I) Packaging was also formally approved.

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...