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---   Design / Marketing / Printing   ---

  • Graphic Design Options and Techniques for Packaging
  • Introduction to Packaging Design
  • Packaging as a Marketing Tool
  • Structural Design Solutions
  • Packaging and the consumer
  • Printing principles
  • The marketing mix
  • Value Added Packaging Can Make You More Competitive
  • 33 Ways to improve your packaging economy and avoid costly waste
  • Establishment of package specifications
  • Importance of packaging graphic design for exports

---   Marking / Labelling / Regulations   ---

  • Eco-Labelling in the Context of the European Union
  • Labelling, Coding and Marking Legislations in the Context of the EU
  • Regulations, Standards and Specifications related to Health, Safety and the Environment in the Context of Packaging
  • Legal aspects of packaging
  • Bar coding
  • Marking, Coding and Labelling on Packaging
  • Article numbering for consumer and distribution packages in Europe
  • Bar coding systems - benefits, applications and use
  • Guide to food labelling and advertising in Canada

---   Environment   ---

  • Introduction on Standards and Voluntary Schemes in the EU
  • Packaging Disposal, Recycling and Reuse
  • Packaging Material – Their Energy and Environmental Characteristics and Data
  • Regulations, Standards and Specifications related to Health, Safety and the Environment in the Context of Packaging
  • Eco-Labelling in the Context of the European Union
  • Potential impact of environmental legislation of export packaging from developing countries
  • Environmental considerations influencing the selection of export packaging
  • Trade implications of eco-packaging initiatives
  • Safe and environmentally acceptable packaging - current criteria and life cycle data in industrialized countries
  • Packaging for export products from developing countries, in the light of relevant French and Swiss environmental regulations concerning packaging
  • Adapting packaging to meet market, Health, safety and environmental requirements in developing countries in Africa
  • Environmentally responsible management of packaging waste in Colombia
  • Health, safety and environmental consideration in the export packaging of fish and marine products: a case study in India
  • Export packaging at the crossroads of trade and environment
  • Considerations on environmental impact of packagings during their life cycle
  • Positive packaging policies for the environment
  • Environmental benefits of packaging
  • Repasack - A German company to recover and recycle paper sacks
  • Fourteen common myths about packaging and solid waste problems
  • Eleven responses to the ecological viewpoint on packaging
  • How much do you know about packaging and the environment ?
  • Handling packaging waste in Western Europe
  • Appraisal of ecological studies on packaging and packaging materials
  • Life cycle assessment for packaging
  • Environmental considerations for paper and board transport packaging
  • Current municipal waste management situation in Mumbai, India
  • La situation des déchets d'emballage et leur gestion dans trois pays d'Asie

---  Packaging material   ---

  • Technical notes on the use of corrugated paperboard boxes
  • Technical notes on the use of metal cans
  • Technical notes on the use of wooden packaging
  • Technical notes on the use of plastic films in packaging
  • Active packaging films and susceptors
  • Features of P.E.T. for the packaging of consumer products
  • Effects of recycled material content on the performance of plastic foam cushioning
  • Note sur la production de papier et de carton pour l'emballage dans sept pays d'Asie
  • Packaging materials and types of packaging
  • Packaging materials
  • Packaging Materials: Their Energy and Environmental Characteristics and Data

---  Transport / Logistics   ---

  • Arrival condition of export packages from developing countries
  • Some aspects of packaging for transport
  • Role of packaging in the distribution system
  • International Fruit Container Organization, IFCO-MTS European returnable packaging pool for fruits and vegetables

---  Packaging machinery / Technology   ---

  • Establishing specifications for packaging machinery and ensuring their observance
  • Technology of reduced oxygen packaging
  • Emerging packaging technologies for world markets
  • Packaging machinery

 

---   Products   ---

  • Food Packaging
  • Food safety, super regulation in the context of the EU
  • Materials Used in Primary Packaging of Food Products
  • Packaging and Food Safety
  • Fish packaging
  • Packaging of Jewellery, Handicraft, Spices and nuts
  • Fruit and vegetables packaging
  • Guidelines for the export packaging of frozen shrimps
  • Health, safety and environmental consideration in the export packaging of fish and marine products: a case study in India
  • Use of controlled atmosphere packaging for extending shelf life of fruits, vegetables and other fresh products
  • Modified atmosphere packaging
  • Some aspects of export packaging of furniture

---   Reference material   ---

  • What is packaging?
  • Towards the build up of a global packaging virtual community
  • Checklist for package planning
  • Some aspects of export packaging in developing countries
  • Packaging industry in Nepal
  • Twelve important benefits that packaging offers society
  • Designing bottles for recycling
  • Packaging for globalization: learning from developing country experience
  • Harmonizing packaging practice for global markets
  • World Packaging Organization. A commitment to packaging the future

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