Monthly series
Each month, the Packaging School team comes together to develop a short lesson related to numerous industry topics—from site visits, deep dives, and interviews, our LOTM series is designed to help you keep your finger on the pulse of the dynamic packaging industry.
44 lessons
As we build up to Automotive Packaging Summit 2026, see what automotive packaging leaders at BMW Manufacturing, PakFab, and HazMat Safety Consulting have to say about the top challenges facing their organizations and operations in 2026.
Join us on a world tour exploring packaging material innovations from universities around the world! Tour stops include: South Dakota State University's coffee-based bioplastic, Chile Adventist University's grape stem-based bioplastic, and Northeast Forestry University's bamboo-based bioplastic (China).
Despite being a $1 trillion USD industry, the importance of packaging is often overlooked by folks not in the space. In this Learning of the Month, we explore how packaging engineers, designers, and supply chain analysts work together to reduce the costs and environmental impacts of packaging systems.
Our team visited Atlantic Packaging in Wilmington, NC to catch up with a recent Certificate of Mastery in Packaging Management (CMPM) alum—Aidan Robitaille—to learn more about his experience with the program and how he is planning to commercialize his Packaging Development Plan (PDP) project.
Dive into the packaging, materials, and sustainability of Adidas's 2026 FIFA World Cup match ball, including recyclability findings and a life cycle assessment (LCA) breakdown of its carbon and water footprint using Trayak software.
In packaging, great ideas don’t stop at design—they involve inventors, companies, and legal rights. Learn how patents, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, and royalties work together to move innovations from concept to real-world products.
Over 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed each day worldwide . . . but have you ever wondered how coffee is packaged? In this edition of Learning of the Month, we chat with Will Shurtz of Methodical Coffee—a popular coffee roastery in Greenville, SC—about their coffee packaging process.
Packaging welcomes diverse backgrounds. Majors like chemistry, psychology, and history bring material expertise, consumer insight, and research skills that strengthen design, R&D, and innovation across the packaging industry.
Color is one of the first things we notice in design, but the science behind it is often overlooked. Applied mathematician and color scientist John "The Math Guy" Seymour explains why organizing color is so challenging—and how the Munsell Color Model offers a solution.
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