Dear IAPRI members, dear IAPRI friends,
Since the end of a brilliant 32nd member’s conference hosted by Virginia Tech in Roanoke, I have the immense privilege, honor and responsibility to presiding this great International Association of Packaging Research Institutes.

I am very grateful to the members of the Board of Directors for their trust and will do my very best to deserve it.

IAPRI awarded three researches for there outstanding presentations at the 2025 Member Conference

A groundbreaking project led by Professor Wang Jun and his team from the Department of Packaging Engineering at Jiangnan University, in collaboration with DFP Group, has achieved a major milestone in domestic substitution of high-barrier materials for food packaging.

A new US research center to be led by Michigan State University's School of Packaging aims to address packaging waste by developing recyclable and biodegradable plastic and paper solutions.

The membership has elected three new Institutional Director Alexander Bardenshtein, Carlos Diaz-Acosta, and AJ Gruber to service on the board. The current directors have been elected to serve a second term as an Institutional Directors, Laszlo Horvath, Eric Martene, and Mieke Buntinx. Two directors, Vincent Rouillard and Jun Wang, and Immediate Past President, Jay Singh are retiring as an Institutional Directors.