IAPRI announces the 2020 World Conference in Monterrey, Mexico and the 2021 Member Conference in Mumbai, India

Earlier in June, the ‘green lung’ of the University of Twente’s lush campus outside Enschede, the Netherlands, was an appropriate setting for lively debates about sustainability – as well as many other aspects of packaging - as IAPRI’s 29th Symposium got underway. Keynote PowerPoints from Patrick van Baal and Agnieszka van Batav...

The final day of the 2019 IAPRI Symposium at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, earlier this month, saw four researchers recognized and rewarded for the caliber of their presentations – including one recipient of the first ever IAPRI Career Start Award.

Three current directors and three new directors will serve three-year terms beginning June 14, 2019.

Athanasios Stathopoulos, a Food Engineer, working in the Food Industry mainly in Quality Assurance projects in Dairy and Bakery is working on his PhD under the supervision of Dr. Kanavouras (Lecturer - PhD Packaging Engineer) of the Agricultural University of Athens and is trying to lay out a qualified research proposal on a PhD research thesis in the Histor...

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.

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.

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...