Hello there,

Let me take this opportunity to extend my best wishes to you all for Christmas and the New Year. May you have a peaceful and happy time. It has been an eventful year to say the least and 2012 can only get better.

I enjoyed a very enlightening week with the World Packaging Organisation in November at their gathering in Grantham. As a result it will provide closer ties to the major Packaging Organisations around the World and I am sure will help our members when needed. Watch this space for future developments.

I am pleased to report that Ian Roe our new Chair of the Membership committee is a man with a mission to add more benefits to our list  and keep you all informed. Also Emma Wise has taken over the baton as Chair of the Competitions committee and is already in the fast lane for the 2012 Starpack arrangements.

The awaited ‘Packaging Hub’ website is still progressing with inevitable growing pains. More on this in the New Year.

Keith Barnes
Chairman, The Packaging Society
18 December 2011