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By popular demand we are pleased to announce the next in our series of packaging technology business & academic partnership events...Pack To The Future 4......

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We are excited about the prospect of a visit to this Centre of Excellence. If you are interested polease get in touch with Jeremy (contact details below).

In 1892 the company’s founder, William Painter, invented a better way to package soft drinks and beer. Painter's vision revolutionised the bottling industry. His ingenuity, and the leadership of those who came after him, helped to build Crown Holdings, Inc. into the world leader in packaging that it has become.…

By popular demand we are pleased to announce the third in our very successful series of collaborations between academia and industry to explore insights into the changing global landscape impacted by issues such as Global Warming and water & oil depletion that will affect consumer demand and…

Visit to Brunel Healthcare

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Dear All,

We are now pleased to be able to announce the speakers for the forthcoming Pack To The Future event on 22nd February.

We've got a great line-up based around the theme of NANOTECHNOLOGY....the controlling of matter on an atomic & molecular scale!

The format wiill be broadly simlar to the previous event, but we have taken on-board your…

Dear All,

Please note that we have had some great feedback from the previous event in October and to allow ourselves sufficient time to accommodate some of your ideas and other great enhancements, we have decided to move 'Pack To The Future 2' back from January to February.

More specifically the event will be on Wednesday 22nd February (exact times TBC) and will be at the same Clifton NTU venue as previously.

So please mark it in your…

Dear All,

The Student Starpack Packaging Design Awards are open for entry. Rachel Brooks explains the briefs on offer for 2012, and catches up on developments within the Starpack Advisory Board.

Above: Student Starpack Best in Show 2011

The Student Starpack Awards challenge…

Here are the next presentations from the Pack To The Future event on 19th October 2011:

Presentation 5 - Knowledge Transfer Networks, IOM3 & Mintel

Keith Barnes - Chairman of The Packaging Society

Presentation 6 - Sustainable…

Here are the next presentations from the Pack To The Future event on 19th October 2011:

Presentation 3 – Packaging at the Hive - Chris Hill.pdf

Christopher Hall - Hive Business manager - Nottingham Trent University

Presentation 4 -  Thin Film Processing for Flexible Displays & Electronics & Research Collaboration…

Dear All,

Following our very successful event on the 19th October, please now find in this (& subsequent blog posts) links to PDFs for all of the presentations that you saw. NB I'm constrained by the size of file uploads - so I'm spreading them over a few posts.

The Agenda and my Introductory presentation were in the previous blog post. Here are the next 2 presentations:

Presentation 1 –…

Many thanks again to all of you who turned up last Wednesday for our very successful event at Nottingham Tent Uni.

Attached is a copy of the agenda and the first introductory presentation that I delivered on behalf of The East Midlands Packaging Society, laying out my aims and aspirations as Chairman.

Other presentations & video clips to follow.

Agenda for…

Pack to the Future

If you are intending to come along to the Pack To The Future event on 19th October please complete the below registration form to secure your place & help us to plan catering arrangements:

Dear All, as I mentioned in my previous blog post, my main focus this year as new Chairman of the East Midlands Packaging Society  is to entice more of you, our valued members, to take part in events and also to encourage ‘new blood’ into the industry. 

We’ve got some fantastic events lined-up, in which you could participate in a number of different ways…

East Midlands Packaging Society are extremely proud to announce a new look for 2010/2011 which is being launched by their brand new Chairman, Chris Penfold.  Chris is the CEO of Design Cognition Group Ltd and has over 25 years pharmaceutical & healthcare packaging design and development experience, including 8 years consulting.  He is a fellow of the Packaging Society, a Chartered Environmentalist and also a Chartered Marketer. 

With such an innovative and experienced chairman,…

Calling Notice, East Midlands Packaging Society AGM, Tuesday 10th May

The East Midlands Packaging Society AGM will be held on Tuesday 10th May at The Chesterfield, Church Street, Bingham, Nottingham NG13 8AL. 6.45pm for 7pm AGM start. The AGM is expected to take around 30 minutes, following which we will be staying for a meal. If members would like to join us for food, please advise as soon as possible (food at own cost).

AGM agenda and minutes of last year's…

If you are interested in any of the following areas and want to see leading-edge packaging technologies from a Global leader, then this visit is a MUST for you.

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