The 2020 AIP Australasian Packaging Conference is being held in Melbourne next year and organisers are calling for speakers.
The Conference delivers a two-day educational program covering a broad range of topics.
Next year’s theme is Packaging Fit for the Future.
The packaging industry is now facing many challenges including global plastic pollution and recycling issues. These challenges are requiring packaging companies, manufacturers and retailers to re-think their approaches and undertake strategic sustainable changes.
The packaging industry globally is looking towards true circular value chains. It must ensure recyclability of packaging and recycled content to reduce packaging wherever possible.
That means replacing problematic materials and designing with new materials. The industry must look at how packaging can be reused and develop closed looped programs that are the new normal for packaging design.
Tackling food waste
The additional challenge of Halving Food Waste going to Landfill by 2030 is a target that Food Manufacturers must recognise.
And designing Save Food Packaging is a challenge that packaging technologists and designers must start incorporate into all product development.
The 2020 AIP Australasian Packaging Conference will attract delegates from a wide variety of industry sectors including food & beverage, pharmaceutical and manufacturing.
Packaging industry representatives include technologists, designers and engineers, sustainability managers, marketing, sales, production, design agencies to equipment suppliers, raw material providers, users of packaging, retailers and consumers, environmental managers, procurement, quality teams, government & councils and waste & recycling companies.
The 2020 Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards and the Women in Packaging Breakfast Forum will be held in conjunction with the Conference at Crown Promenade in Melbourne on April 1-2.
To submit a paper for consideration for the 2020 AIP Australasian Packaging Conference email [email protected] requesting a Call for Speakers application form and list of recommended topics to suit the audience and event.
The deadline for applications is December 16.
