Dear Member, The Summer 'silly season' is nearly over and we can now get back to work in earnest. There are plenty of events coming up that should engage our intention and provide interest and debate, no matter what part of the Packaging Industry we are from. Look out for the PPMA seminar in Northampton in September and the Easyfairs in London in October which will feature the Big Packaging Debate 'The message or the messenger ?' with Robert Opie, Julia Hales, Marcel Knobil and Peter Marsh.
The new regional programmes start again in September and we have StarPack as start things off so we look forward to your support and help.
On the membership front, it may be well worth all our members updating friends on colleagues of the benefits of individual membership of the Packaging Society. We are about the people who work in our industry and we have the resources, technical help, research and training via the IOM3 which should be the used to our advantage. Coupled with the on-line technical advice service, the regional society meetings and the obvious networking opportunities, the Packaging Society is now becoming a great place to belong.  

 

Keith Barnes
Chairman - The Packaging Society
30 July 2010