IAPRI Working Group:
Flexible Packaging

Mission statement

Create an active working group in flexible packaging issues in order to identify necessary areas for research and development. The goal is to harmonize technology concerns between materials, packaging machines, packed goods and process issues.

Chair

Duncan Darby, PhD, Professor Clemson University

Co-chair

Dr. Ingo Bueren, Professor HdM Stuttgart, Director IPI Neuhausen/Switzerland

Actions and progress

• June 2008—Inaugural meeting at the 2008 IAPRI Symposium
• May 2009—Working Group meeting at the IAPRI Symposium Greenville SC

Online

mailto:ddarby@clemson.edu

More information

This new working group has the intention to introduce a new field of research and development in the IAPRI concept. Flexible Packaging has a growing share of now roughly 15% in the global packaging markets and is especially preferred in developing countries.

Flexible Packaging needs the integration of several technologies in the fields of:

• packaging materials
• packaging machines
• packed goods
• and several process oriented fields, also printing