The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) has dubbed its inaugural half day training course in New Zealand a success saying the course was well received by participants. The Institute says attendees represented an accurate cross section of the packaging fraternity in New Zealand.
The course, held at the Packaging Council of New Zealand’s offices in East Tamaki, Manukau, offered the attendees up-to-date information on plastics as well as the opportunity to expand their knowledge and commercial opportunities across the breadth of the plastics. Attendees were offered educational opportunities to meet the demands of the workplaces within the plastics industry, according to the AIP.Organisers say that the attendees grasped the content which covered raw materials, properties, the manufacture and application of plastics. They were particularly interested in the principles of injection moulding, extrusion, blow moulding and thermoforming polymers. The organic chemistry of polymers was only touched on but sufficiently for participants to understand the molecular chains of the material.
The AIP says that lively discussion dispelled the reputation that plastics are cheap and unreliable. An explanation of the advances in plastic technology facilitated an appreciation for the importance of plastics as a reliable class of materials for product design.
The AIP will be bringing a new course to New Zealand in August this year.
