Gateway to Interpack 2005

 - A Report

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  Objective

The best teachers are the people who have been through the mills themselves that’s why Indian Institute of Packaging “Train the trainers program” for Asian countries, a course aimed at producing competent regional packaging trainers was about more than just talk. The course was conceived during the APF board meeting at Colombo & took the final shape at Japan. IIP with its vast infrastructure, hostel facilities & trained staff was selected to undertake the program.

  Contents

A residential training programme was designed for duration of four weeks. The course comprised of Classroom Lectures, Country Paper Presentation, Discussions & Project Work. Industrial / Field Visits suitably complemented the course structure. IIP laboratory training aids, Library & reference materials, Film show and above all the interaction with the staff & instructors from the industry made the course extremely useful.

  Conduct

Most of the theoretical training took place at IIP Campus. Internal as well as visiting faculties & the specialists from the packaging industry shared their knowledge. Topics ranging from introduction and concepts on packaging and its potential; material based packaging; properties, types, applications & developments, recent trends, manufacture and design, CFB, plastics and high barrier films, tinplate, glass and composite containers, paper and specialty paper, paperboard, fibre foils etc were aptly covered by experienced faculty. Product based packaging included lectures & industrial visits on packaging of fresh food, processed foods, packaging of pharmaceuticals, light & heavy engineering goods. Printing techniques, printing inks, coding & marking, recycling & eco aspects, evaluation of packs, package designing, product – package compatibility / shelf life, aseptic packaging, CAP/MAP, shrink packaging / stretch wrapping, unit load devices, brand protection & promotion were other areas which were discussed at length.

The lectures were very well complimented with the industrial visits to Balmer Lawri Van-Leer Ltd., Parksons Packaging, Times Packaging, Vitrum Glass, Fibre Foils Ltd., Positive Packaging India Pvt. Ltd., Mahananda Dairy, Mother Dairy Foods Processing Ltd., Board of radiation and Isotope Technology, Essel Propack,, Cadbury India Ltd., DIC India Ltd.

“In addition to training we also want to transfer experience” says Professor M.C. Dordi - Program Coordinator”

  Feedback

Feedback helped in monitoring the course & taking the timely remedial actions. Some of the course feedback received is as follows:

The Coordinator has done a great job. The host country entertained us more than expected” - Ms. Tuti Buntaran - Indonesia.

“Industrial visits gave me an excellent opportunity to acquire practical knowledge on different packaging processes” Mr. S.R.P. Indrakeerthi – SriLanka.

The training programme has given us immense knowledge of all the sectors of packaging, Also factory visits give the application knowledge of each sector” - W.D. Anurudha Bandara - SriLanka.

“As after you start working for a particular industry you are more confined to that field, majoring & maintaining the technology of that packaging. Here in this course I got a chance to get the combined knowledge covering all sectors of packaging, which is very helpful being in this field” Ms. Roshini Joshi - Singapore.

“Based on knowledge & experience in the packaging & printing, the course is extremely useful” - Ho Thi Hoang Ha - Vietnam.

“In the prevalent packaging industry scenario, the course is extremely relevant to the students as it prepares us for dealing with the various packaging technologies” - Mr. Qassim I. Galely - SriLanka.

“It helped the students from different segments of packaging in strengthening their packaging knowledge. Country report presented by the participants helped us in understanding the packaging scenario in other countries. It also gave an analysis of the trends and growth in the packaging industry” Ms. Penchom Photjanataree - Thailand.

“The course is covering all the sectors of packaging. Factory visits made the course more interesting” - M.D. Leelaratne Perera - SriLanka.

“Industrial visits are the most valuable & good opportunity that was gained from this training programme. The knowledge acquired from the visiting lecturers of IIP is very good” - Ms. I. M. Amali Anuradha Illankoon from SriLanka.

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