 December 2023 News and updates for our packaging community. | |||||||
Join us at the 2024 ISTA Forum, including TransPack & TempPack events, on April 22-24 at the Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina in San Diego, California. Our signature event is where the packaging community unites to tackle today's challenges, explore industry best practices, discover the latest trends, and collectively shape the future of transport packaging. REGISTER TODAY 
Get a head start on your education and add a pre-forum training course to your ISTA Forum schedule:
The ISTA Educational Foundation (ISTAEF) is hosting a special fundraising event at Mike Hess Brewing in Seaport Village on Monday, April 22nd, from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Join us for a great opportunity to network, reconnect with friends, and contribute to raising funds for undergraduate research grants and scholarships. Your support will encourage research in undergraduate transport packaging and inspire the next wave of packaging industry leaders!  Add ISTA Packaging Dynamics Professional (ISTA PDP) expertise to your resume! Join Larry Dull for a Live Virtual Training event covers all six (6) courses required to obtain your ISTA PDP Certification. Once you complete the following courses and pass the exam, you will receive your certification as an ISTA Packaging Dynamics Professional:
Understand your supply chain! ISTA now offers Distribution Environment Data Collection & Analysis self-study courses providing an in-depth discussion on the collection and analysis of shock & vibration data associated with the transport of products.  Now available! The ISTA Pharma Committee and Lane Management Working Group have prepared the ISTA PCW-01 Lane Management Whitepaper to:
Click the button below to access all ISTA Pharma Committee guidelines and whitepapers.  We are now accepting nominations for the R. David LeButt Award, which honors packaging professionals for their outstanding contributions to education in transport packaging. The deadline for nominations is January 31, 2024. The selected recipient will be honored at ISTA's Annual Forum, April 22-24, 2024 in San Diego, California!  The ISTA Educational Foundation (ISTAEF) is seeking undergraduate research proposals focusing on minimizing product damage throughout distribution and optimizing resource usage through effective package design. ISTAEF will award two research grants of $4,500 each for Fall 2024 projects. The submission deadline is March 29, 2024. Recipients of the grants will be announced at the 2024 ISTA Forum!  The 2023 ISTA China Packaging Symposium held in late October in Huagnshan, Anhui, was a resounding success, bringing together leading minds in the packaging industry. Organized by the International Safe Transit Association China Division and presented by the China Packaging Research & Test Center and China Packaging Research Institute, the event covered key topics such as ISTA test procedures, transport packaging design, e-commerce packaging, standardization, packaging design, cold-chain testing, and sustainable development. Our thanks to speakers, attendees, exhibitors and sponsors for contributing to the event's success which is supported by CME Technology Co., Ltd. & Guangdong Labtone Test Equipment Co., Ltd. as Platinum Sponsor and HQTS QA International Services Co., Ltd., SGS-CSTC Standards Technical Services, SUZHOU SUSHI Testing Group Co., Ltd and SnT Consulting as Golden Sponsor.  Last month, Packaging professionals from around the globe gathered at the ISTA Asia-Pacific Packaging Symposium in Jeju Island, South Korea for presentations on sustainable packaging for transit, circular economy, advanced AI in packaging, load stability, and ISTA educational, research, and standards programs. Thank you to all the attendees, hosts, and organizers - Korea Society of Packaging Science and Technology (KOPAST), APN, Korea Conformity Lab (KCL) and ISTA Asia Pacific Board Chair Jongkyoung Kim - for making this event a great success! 
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| ISTA InTouch E-Newsletter - December 2023 | |||||||
