Tom is professor of art and design at Nottingham Trent. I’m going along to hear him and Janet Shipton speak at a Future factories seminar on Friday this week (19th). Should be interesting (Martin).
We tend to assume that used consumer packaging is just waste. When it stops being a necessity, waste packaging becomes an inconvenience, [...]
Yeah, this bloke really knows what he’s talking about! Good looking too. (Martin).
Martin Hardwidge, who runs MHA Marketing Communications, a PR agency specialising in the Packaging Industry, and is Chair of The Packaging Society East Midlands, tells Packaging News why training remains important in retaining a highly-skilled workforce.On an almost daily basis, we are told [...]
Be quick, be very quick, this course will fill up TODAY. WRAP (Waste Resource Action Programme) is funding a two day course/seminar/workshop to look at the ways of decreasing waste and increasing sustainability through packaging optimisation. The course is being delivered by IOP: The Packaging Society in Grantham on 3rd June and 15th July. If [...]
PIABC, the packaging training qualifications body, has awarded 30 staff at Catalent Pharma Solutions’ Corby plant national vocational qualifications (NVQ) for packaging operators.
Catalent produces packaging for the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and healthcare sectors, which means staff require high levels of training.
via Catalent staff obtain packaging qualification | packagingnews.co.uk.
Two subjects we all need to understand properly in the industry. Two new one-day courses from IOP: The Packaging Society address these in a concise and accessible way. Taught in small groups, the print course is delivered at Chesapeake in Nottingham while the Packaging Specification course is delivered at the bright shiny new training facilities [...]
A really interesting American article about the importance of training for packaging companies. The UK’s equivalent is the Diploma in Packaging Technology developed and delivered by IOP: The Packaging Society (Martin)
Packaging Education: Need for training is increasing, says IoPP – 4/3/2009 2:03:00 PM – Packaging Digest.
Thanks to Rudi for a good intro to packaging (Martin)
What is Packaging ? « Rudi.
Did you know that people in the packaging industry can gain accreditation to Chartered Environmentalist (C Env) status? Well you can, and what’s more you can, for a limited time, get a fast-track to it by joining IOP: The Packaging Society, which is part of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. IOM3 can award [...]
Follow this link to see the latest dates for IOP: The Packaging Society training courses: http://tinyurl.com/dhf474 New dates for Diploma in Packaging Technology, Certificate in Packaging, EQIPT and more.
I was recently invited onto BBC local radio to argue the point about packaging (again), in this case with the mother of an Olympic athlete who had a bee in her bonnet about the amount of packaging that we apparently don’t need. It was a bit of a no-win situation; it would have been easy [...]
