If you are working at an IAPRI member university involved in Packaging Education you should join this new Community of Practice.

IAPRI has relatively little social media presence currently, with a Twitter account and a LinkedIn account which are really mostly ineffective and rarely used. The Board of Directors knows the importance of IAPRI supporting and maintaining the networking among the researchers and educators who are our members. Social media is of critical importance, especially for the younger and upcoming generation of members. So we have established a new Working Group.

Finland’s VTT and University of Vaasa have followed up on a joint research concept looking at viable options for reusable packaging by helping to convene the 4everPack consortium spanning the supply chain.

ISTA's Advocate Research and Value Delivery Program includes conducting research and collecting data that improves testing and design methodologies for the evolving domestic and global supply chains. The objective of this research project is to measure, the hazards encountered by LTL (less than truckload) freight in their standard handling, transport and delivery environment not adequately covered, or supported by field data, in the existing ISTA 3B standard.

Clemson University in the US has announced three keynote speakers for its second annual Food, Packaging & Sustainability Summit, to be hosted by Sonoco FRESH next March.

At the end of October, Spain’s ITENE welcomed the various stakeholders involved in the ENVAPES project, headed by the country’s fishing industry association FEDERPESCA, investigating the options for – and regulations governing – packaging for fish and seafood.

In the second of our articles celebrating IAPRI’s 50th anniversary and summarizing the association’s history, we jump back to its origins as an organization with a compact, largely European membership

Our review of IAPRI’s June Conference concludes with a look at two general-stream papers and one sponsor presentation, all of them offering different perspectives on packaging in the supply chain.

The current worldwide boom in e-commerce could – and probably should – be followed by a surge in package performance testing and sustainable design.

As a specialized polymer R&D center, Norner has a history which stretches back to 1977 and current investment which includes different types of plastics extrusion and moulding, as well as new measurement equipment for its labs.

With travel restrictions still in place, IAPRI held its Member Conference virtually. Thanks to the 45 researchers who presented their work, IAPRI held a three day, three track Zoom Webinar with just over 100 attendees. The sessions were recorded and are available to participants to view the ones they missed. We will feature some of the papers in our Conference Spotlight over the next few issues.