IAPRI Member

Belgium Packaging Institute
(Belgisch Verpakkingsinstituut—Institut Belge de l'Emballage)


Address	Research Park Kranenberg 10 1731 Zellik BELGIUM
Contact	Marleen Calcoen/Maxence Wittebolle (Director/General Director)
Telephone	+32 2 464 02 10
Fax	+32 2 464 02 39
email	packaging@ibebvi.be
Web	www.ibebvi.be (opens in a new window)
	Created in 1954, the BPI is a service centre with as main objectif to render assistance to manufacturers, transformers, distributers and consumers of all kind of packages. Concretely this assistance counts four basic areas : education, information & documentation, technical help and quality testing of packages in various environments by means of our packaging laboratory and research and development. The BPI is a neutral and objectif organism that is recognized by the Ministry for the execution of several quality controls of packaging materials and packages. The administration of the BPI is entrust to a Board in which the representatifs of the professional federations and the different public authorities are seated. Nevertheless the BPI is an autonomous organism that creates here own resources to finance here activities. As a service centre the BPI is open to everyone. Every solicitude regarding packages is also that of the BPI. Nevertheless, the BPI works also with a membership system. At the moment nearly 200 companies are member of the BPI, receiving many benefits including cost reduction for testing, training programmes etc ... The speciality of the BPI covers services under the following headings: Information and documentation Training: specialized courses and seminars, in company trainings. Testing: The packaging laboratory of the BPI build up a many years' specialised experience regarding testing of packaging materials and packages. All our testings are performed following the official standards and testing procedures. The packaging laboratory is active in mainly six areas: physico-chemical tests on packaging material and packages testing of packages for dangerous goods (flexible) intermediate bulk containers consumer food packaging quality control consultancy Research and development The BPI participates regularly at research and development programmes usually issued by the European Commission. These programmes concerns all kind of examination projects in the field of packaging, training programmes, diagnoses, etc.