52 topics · 8 topic areas · around 20–90 minutes per module
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Protection, handling, information and process compatibility: what does packaging need to deliver throughout the value chain?
Your learning outcome: You can justify packaging decisions by referring to the functions required.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Translate product characteristics, transport, storage and processing conditions into specific packaging requirements.
Your learning outcome: You structure a packaging brief with essential criteria and outstanding data requirements.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Understand properties, test conditions, units and tolerances; distinguish genuinely comparable data from figures that only appear comparable.
Your learning outcome: You formulate targeted questions for suppliers and identify where the basis for comparison is incomplete.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Consider material mass, the packaging unit and the protected product as reference quantities. Convert quantities and units using straightforward examples.
Your learning outcome: You select transparent metrics for comparing packaging options.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Why the price of the packaging alone is not a sound basis for a decision: an overview of processing, losses and changeover costs.
Your learning outcome: You know the main cost drivers when changing packaging.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Compare fibres, paper, board, cartonboard, plastics, glass and metals in terms of function, processing and recovery routes.
Your learning outcome: You make an initial material shortlist for a defined application.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Fibre-based packaging materials, corrugated board and moulded components: strength, moisture sensitivity, protective functions and typical limitations.
Your learning outcome: You recognise when a fibre-based solution needs additional protective or barrier functions.
Suitable for: Across industries.
PE, PP, PET and other packaging plastics: property profiles, typical applications and trade-offs.
Your learning outcome: You assess material proposals from a technical perspective and focus the next stage of trials.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Consider protection, weight, breakage risk, closures and reuse together.
Your learning outcome: You identify the key comparison criteria for glass and potential alternatives.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Aluminium and tinplate: an overview of barrier properties, dimensional stability, coatings and composite structures.
Your learning outcome: You assess the strengths and limitations of metal packaging for your application.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Understand the functions of individual layers. Weigh protection requirements, processability and recycling considerations when moving to simpler structures.
Your learning outcome: You can explain the function of each layer and discuss alternatives with sound reasoning.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Selecting plastics for the application – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Distinguish bio-based from biodegradable plastics; assess materials including PLA, PHA and starch-based systems in terms of application and processing.
Your learning outcome: You assess the technical suitability of a material concept and formulate questions about its application readiness.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Making sense of sustainability terminology – or equivalent prior knowledge.
How coatings add functionality to paper and fibre products: consider protection, coating application and recovery together.
Your learning outcome: You can identify the testing required when replacing a plastic solution with a paper-based alternative.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Paper, board, cartonboard and moulded fibre – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Treat bonding and finishing layers as part of the packaging system: function, separability and relevant supplier information.
Your learning outcome: You recognise interactions that a comparison of the main material alone would miss.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Oxygen, water vapour and gas transmission: mechanisms, influencing factors, measured values and test conditions.
Your learning outcome: You interpret barrier data in relation to actual conditions of use.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Reading material data sheets correctly – or equivalent prior knowledge.
From protection needs to the required barrier: calculation examples involving surface area, layer thickness, permeability and duration of use.
Your learning outcome: You develop a reasoned barrier requirements profile with explicit assumptions.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Permeation and barrier properties explained; From product characteristics to packaging requirements – or equivalent prior knowledge.
How environmental conditions change material properties and product stability, and why laboratory values need checking before being applied in practice.
Your learning outcome: You derive relevant test conditions for your application.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Extrusion, coextrusion, orientation and thermoforming: links between manufacturing, structure and packaging properties.
Your learning outcome: You assess manufacturing routes from a technical perspective when changing materials.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Selecting plastics for the application – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Compare lamination, organic and inorganic barriers, and coating processes.
Your learning outcome: You can explain the role of a functional layer and the main process requirements.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Mono-material and multilayer structures – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Sealing range, contamination, material structure and the process window as factors affecting packaging integrity.
Your learning outcome: You prepare questions to check the compatibility of new packaging with existing equipment.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Scavengers, active components and indicators: operating principles, practical benefits and limitations.
Your learning outcome: You distinguish a technically useful additional function from a poorly substantiated product concept.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing, Other life sciences applications.
Bio-based, biodegradable, compostable, recyclable and recycled-content: what the terms mean and how their claims differ.
Your learning outcome: You avoid common terminology mix-ups in development, procurement and communication.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Collection, sorting and recovery, and the influence of material combinations, labels and coatings.
Your learning outcome: You identify assessment priorities and data requirements for a packaging structure.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Property variation, quality, origin and application requirements of recycled materials.
Your learning outcome: You formulate technical requirements and supplier questions for using recycled content.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Understand functional units, system boundaries, impact categories and data quality through packaging examples.
Your learning outcome: You assess which conclusions a given life cycle assessment supports and which it does not.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Defining metrics and reference quantities – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Assess climate impacts, recognise the assumptions behind comparison figures and take other environmental impacts into account.
Your learning outcome: You can critically examine carbon footprint figures and identify appropriate conditions for comparison.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Defining metrics and reference quantities – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Reuse cycles, return rates, cleaning, transport and losses as key factors when comparing systems.
Your learning outcome: You compile the data needed for an application-specific comparison.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Biogenic raw materials, proteins, polysaccharides and side streams: material potential, functionalisation and industrial scale-up.
Your learning outcome: You assess new bio-based concepts in terms of function, application readiness and outstanding development questions.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Making sense of sustainability terminology – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Systematically review wall thickness, grammage, dimensions and protective structures. Weigh potential savings against possible product losses and process inefficiencies.
Your learning outcome: You identify material reduction options that can be tested.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: From product characteristics to packaging requirements – or equivalent prior knowledge.
The structure and topics of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation: packaging minimisation, recycling, recycled content and reuse, and the significance of phased application dates.
Your learning outcome: You can systematically identify relevant areas for action and the information required.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Understand the European framework for food contact materials, good manufacturing practice and material-specific rules from a technical perspective.
Your learning outcome: You know the key questions to address when selecting materials and coordinating with suppliers.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Examine conditions of use, the basis for testing, traceability and information in supplier documents through examples.
Your learning outcome: You recognise missing information and can request the documents needed for a technical review.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Useful foundation topics: Food contact: fundamentals and interfaces – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Which data support a claim about material reduction, recycling or climate impact? Reference quantities, limitations and transparency.
Your learning outcome: You examine the technical substance of a claim and identify where further clarification is needed.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Oxidation, changes in moisture and microbiological factors in the interaction between product and packaging.
Your learning outcome: You translate typical spoilage mechanisms into requirements for product protection.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
MAP and vacuum packaging: product requirements, gas composition, barrier performance and typical failure patterns.
Your learning outcome: You assess the factors influencing a packaging concept and derive questions for testing.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Useful foundation topics: Food spoilage and packaging protection; Permeation and barrier properties explained – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Discuss colour, oxidation, exudate, shelf life and material changes using examples specific to meat products.
Your learning outcome: You develop criteria for a packaging alternative that suits the product.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Useful foundation topics: Food spoilage and packaging protection – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Compare the packaging requirements of dairy products, cheese and ready-to-eat foods using selected examples.
Your learning outcome: You recognise product-specific trade-offs when changing materials.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Useful foundation topics: Food spoilage and packaging protection – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Moisture uptake, aroma, oxygen and degassing as requirements for films, closures and the packaging system.
Your learning outcome: You identify relevant barrier and handling requirements for dry products.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Useful foundation topics: Permeation and barrier properties explained – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Plan test conditions, reference packaging, relevant quality attributes and evaluation methods for shelf-life trials.
Your learning outcome: You design a product-specific test plan with responsibilities and outstanding technical questions.
Suitable for: Food & beverages, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Useful foundation topics: Food spoilage and packaging protection – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Structure requirements for mechanical loading, surface protection, moisture protection and handling in an industrial supply chain.
Your learning outcome: You derive protection requirements for selected technical products.
Suitable for: Industrial & technical products, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Useful foundation topics: From product characteristics to packaging requirements – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Consider format selection, fill ratio, cushioning and the number of packaging variants together. Treat overpackaging as a hypothesis to be tested.
Your learning outcome: You identify opportunities to reduce material and use storage and transport volume more efficiently.
Suitable for: Industrial & technical products, Packaging & material manufacturing.
Packing stations, material supply, cycle times, changeovers, scrap and ergonomic handling as part of the packaging decision.
Your learning outcome: You structure the observations needed for an on-site packaging review.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Combine packaging prices, material consumption, processing effort, logistics and potential product losses in a straightforward comparison model.
Your learning outcome: You develop a transparent cost framework with explicit assumptions.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Defining metrics and reference quantities – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Systematically compare requirements, samples, data quality and quotation terms.
Your learning outcome: You create a comparison matrix and a targeted set of questions for suppliers.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Reading material data sheets correctly – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Consider load carriers, return logistics, cleaning, loss rates and standardised formats as part of the packaging system.
Your learning outcome: You describe the data needed to assess a reusable packaging system within your operations.
Suitable for: Industrial & technical products, Packaging & material manufacturing, Food & beverages.
Clarify the brief, objective, scope, milestones and decision-making process for a packaging project.
Your learning outcome: You draft a concise project brief.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Involve procurement, development, quality, production and logistics; jointly define requirements and approval routes.
Your learning outcome: You create an overview of roles and coordination needs for your project.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Compare two packaging options using examples agreed in advance, considering function, costs, environmental aspects and data quality.
Your learning outcome: You develop a transparent decision matrix.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: From product characteristics to packaging requirements – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Document trials, comparison conditions, test criteria and responsibilities for a material change.
Your learning outcome: You prepare an agreed trial plan as the basis for subsequent implementation.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: From product characteristics to packaging requirements – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Rank improvement ideas by benefit, effort, risk and available evidence; define next steps and responsibilities.
Your learning outcome: You develop a prioritised action plan.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Work systematically with the team on a small selection of your own examples agreed in advance; bring together available data and outstanding questions.
Your learning outcome: You apply the seminar content to a specific question from your operations.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: From product characteristics to packaging requirements – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Prepare the baseline, targets, follow-up process and a clear presentation of results for decision-makers.
Your learning outcome: You formulate measurable objectives and a plan for reviewing outcomes.
Suitable for: Across industries.
Useful foundation topics: Defining metrics and reference quantities – or equivalent prior knowledge.
Durations are indicative and include brief clarification questions. Applied and case-study modules explain methods and support technical discussion using examples agreed in advance. They do not include taking on operational project tasks. The specific session is agreed within the stated scope of services. Regulatory modules cover the fundamentals and their connections with technical practice; these seminars do not include a legal assessment of individual cases.
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