The dates for general stream abstract submission and Peer Reviewed papers have been extend, but it is important to get them submitted.

Established in 2012 the IAPRI Student Exchange Scholarship supports research undertaken by students from an IAPRI member organization by enabling them to travel to another IAPRI member institute to further conduct their research work.

Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands, has been carrying out direct, qualitative consumer research to gauge attitudes to – and interaction with – instore dispensing systems and reusable packaging.

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.

In September this year, Ghent University in Belgium is launching a one-year advanced master’s programme in Sustainable Food Packaging based at its Kortrijk campus, around 40km to the southwest.

The first WPO Sustainability position paper written by the Vice President Sustainability & Save Food, Nerida Kelton. This important report has been developed from the country reports that were provided for the Sustainability & Save Food working group meeting held in November.

The concluding section of our three-part history of IAPRI over the 50 years of its existence focuses on the two decades since the millennium.

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

A half-century on from the official founding of IAPRI in 1971, we look at one of the critical decades for the association, when the membership nearly trebled, the geographical footprint began a decisive shift, and communication at Board and membership levels underwent important changes.

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.

Whether your are the delegate member, additional contact or packaging researcher in the IAPRI community, we ask that you take a few minutes to make sure your institutes and/or your personal contact information is current. This is specially true for any researcher that wants to be listed in the Packaging Research Community Directory.