Packbridge Research Forum is growing with speakers from research and institutions outside the Nordic region

In just a few years, Packbridge Research Forum has become something of an institution when it comes to packaging-related research. Over the course of a day a variety of researchers get the opportunity to present their latest findings. Last year close to 150 people, most of them from the industry, were on site to hear the latest research results. Packbridge Research Forum has quite simply become a real bridge between academia, research and industry.

This year’s date is 18 May, and the venue is the new Quality Hotel View in Malmö. The programme is now beginning to take shape and, for the first time, a speaker from a country outside the Nordic countries will be on the rostrum. Jane Bickerstaffe, from Incpen in the UK, will be addressing the ever present problem of hard-to-empty packaging, with the theme “The Bit in the Bottom”. Incpen has just launched a guide for packaging manufacturers, brand owners and designers which gives good advice on this issue. They have tested 362 different items of packaging in different sectors, and have produced interesting statistics such as that in 236 of the packs around 1% of the contents remained when it was perceived as empty.

Also on the list of speakers will be Peter Sandberg from SP, who will speak about “Innovation around the user experience“, Alexander Bardenstein from the Danish DTI, whose presentation is entitled “Sustainable Materials for food packaging applicatons“, and Faiza Rasheed and Fredrik Fernqvist from SLU, Jouni Lattu from VTT Finland, Hjalmar Granberg from Innventia and Björn Norberg from Acreo. Additional speakers have confirmed their participation and more details will shortly be available on the website http://www.packbridgeresearchforum.com.

For more information, contact Felix Helander via felix@packbridge.se or on +46 (0) 734 087 590.