The IAPRI Board of Directors encourages all members to consider the opportunity of becoming a sponsor of the 30th IAPRI Member Conference in 2021. Being a sponsor indicates you are willing to contribute to the packaging research community to which the IAPRI member institutes and their researchers belong.

The membership has approved changes to the by-laws and the Board of Directors have changed the Operating Policies to coincide with the by-laws. This completes the last steps in a review and revision process that the board has been working on for the past few years.

Karlstad University, Sweden, is funding a PhD research project looking in detail at real recycling rates for different types of food packaging, how these reduce (if at all) the overall carbon footprint of packaging, and how this in turn can be weighed in lifecycle analysis (LCA) against reductions in food waste resulting from its use.

Alliance To End Plastic Waste, a nonprofit organization that brings together government, companies & community to end plastic waste in the environment is seeking your ideas to be a part of the solution

ITENE, Spain, has obtained DIN CERTCO certification to be able to carry out home compostability testing in its laboratories.

The executive director of the World Food Programme (WFP), last week, opened Clemson University’s inaugural Food, Packaging & Sustainability Summit by underlining the critical importance of packaging in combatting food waste and the role that institutions such as Clemson can play in working with the WFP to find solutions.

In the last of our series highlighting areas of the 2020 IAPRI Online Conference, we look at new research grappling with topics from controlled antimicrobial release to colour-change freshness indicators.

You have a fantastic new technology or novel material, but how do you scale it up and demonstrate a route to commercialisation? IAPRI members share their experiences in different areas.

Corporate member Intel may be famed for its ‘Intel inside’ tagline, but the company ensures that its Transport Media and Materials Engineering (TMME) group pays just as much attention to what is ‘outside’ in the form of packaging – and remains hopeful that IAPRI’s live events will soon provide valuable support to its research, design and testing.

IAPRI, like all associations, companies and individuals is being challenged in many ways by the Coronavirus. We have a great opportunity, not only to survive, but to thrive because of learning more ways to generate benefits for our packaging research community and have some fun too.