A Deeper Green: How Research around Sustainability is Evolving
04/30/2019
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.

IAPRI Symposium promises a packed program
04/30/2019
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.

New Award to be give at the Upcoming IAPRI Symposium
04/30/2019
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 Announces the election of members to the IAPRI Board of Directors.
04/30/2019
Three current directors and three new directors will serve three-year terms beginning June 14, 2019.

Working Groups to meet at the 2019 IAPRI Symposium
04/30/2019
IAPRI’s four Working Groups will meet on May 11th according to the following schedule and agendas

CETEA/ITAL has opened a call for Young Investigator Fellowship in Food Contaminants from Packaging
04/13/2019
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,...

Shinyei Testing Machinery creates formal link with Thai research institute
04/30/2019
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.

BFSV Germany acquires clamp tester, now essential for ISTA 6-Amazon protocol
04/30/2019
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.

Clemson names new director of food waste initiative
04/30/2019
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.