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Obituary Roberto Hiraishi |
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Written by Gerard Molenaar
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Friday, 01 September 2006 00:00 |
It is with deep regret that the IPPO board records the death on August 27, 2006, of one of its valued members, Roberto Hiraishi, founder and editor of Embanews in Brazil.With almost 50 years’ experience in the publishing field, Roberto Hiraishi has dedicated his life to the packaging market. He has been an IPPO member since 1994.
Sixteen years ago, Roberto was the founding editor of Embanews magazine and Embalagem & Cia, both specialised publications for the packaging sector. He has played an important role in the Brazilian packaging market; and his entrepreneurial spirit has sparked many successful initiatives such as the creation of the Brazilian Packaging Awards, one of the main awards dedicated to packaging innovation, technology and quality in Brazil’s packaging sector.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 01 June 2008 09:57 )
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Written by Peter Roessel
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:00 |
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WPO adds bronze and silver to WorldStar President’s Award Better packaging for more people The World Packaging Organisation (WPO) came together in Poznan (Poland) at the end of November for its annual WorldStar judging. The new President, Keith Pearson, took the opportunity to present his plans. His main goal is: ‘Better Quality Of Life Through Better Packaging For More People’
 While the international packaging industry gathered together in Paris at the Emballage trade fair at the end of November, the World Packaging Organisation had a meeting in Poland for the judging of the WorldStars. If WPO President Keith Pearson has his way, such unfortunate planning will not happen again, since he wants to raise WPO’s profile by, among other things, attending as many trade fairs as possible. Emballage, second in the world in terms of visitor numbers, is therefore an important platform for WPO. The WPO meeting in Poznan was about the judging of the WorldStars. Each year, WPO member nations can send in their national packaging prize winners to compete for this packaging prize. Pearson, who has been the new WPO President since April 2006, used this meeting to unveil his plans. ‘I want more structure within WPO and I want to put the organisation more clearly and more emphatically on the map,’ Pearson told his audience. ‘And doing so is possible, because we have good products to offer. In the past years we have not done enough, however, in terms of public relations. We must further reinforce the WPO brand in order to secure more international recognition and achieve more for our members.’
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 22 March 2008 21:04 )
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WPO Awards - The ulimate Experience |
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Written by Bo Wallteg
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Tuesday, 18 April 2006 00:00 |
For anyone who appreciates packaging, and especially packaging with extra finesse, it is of course the ultimate experience to be able to evaluate packaging solutions from all over the world during one day. At the same time, selecting a WorldStar winner is a task that rather quickly drains a judge’s brain. In nine hours, 294 packs were judged, and 149 of them were awarded WorldStars.
The annual WorldStar competition is organised by the World Packaging Organisation (WPO), an association of business organisations and packaging institutes in 40 or so member nations.
Winners in national packaging competitions enter the contest for WorldStar recognition; and this year 29 countries submitted entries. Two were especially satisfying, those from the two new members, Ghana and Zimbabwe. Herein is both the charm of the competition and also an inherent problem. Entries come from countries with such radically different circumstances that they’re impossible to compare. Each entry, therefore, has to be judged individually according to the specific conditions under which the contestant has been working.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 22 March 2008 20:32 )
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Keith Pearson, SA, is new WPO president |
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Written by Peter Roessel
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Monday, 17 April 2006 00:00 |
 “A recognition of Africa”
At the World Packaging Organisation’s board meeting held in Prague in mid-October, a new president was elected to succeed Dr Alexis Stassinopoulos of Greece. Presidents serve for three years and Dr Stassinopoulos’s term ends in April 2006. President elect is South Africa’s Keith Pearson, immediate past national chairman of the Institute of Packaging (SA). This is the first time that a WPO president has come from the African continent.
Keith Pearson has thorough experience in packaging, having worked for some 30 years in various management positions for the Kohler group, a leading packaging conglomerate in South Africa (and recently acquired by Nampak). For the past few years he has been working as a consultant and now feels that he has the time to commit himself to WPO. This is not the first time he has been offered the presidency.
“I look forward to this with high hopes. I was offered the presidency some years ago, but I did not feel that I had the time to devote to it. Furthermore, I was uncertain how much support I had within the organisation. Therefore, I declined,” says Mr Pearson. “However, now I feel that I have both the time and the support, and therefore the decision was an easy one to take. I am the first from the African continent to be offered this position, and I view this as a recognition of Africa.”
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 15 April 2008 10:21 )
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World Packaging Organisation to expand membership – and educational efforts! |
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Written by Bo Wallteg
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Monday, 17 April 2006 00:00 |
 Under the motto “Better quality of life through better packaging to more people” the World Packaging Organisation is active worldwide. Some 40 countries are members through business organisations and packaging institutes. Many people are acquainted with the organisation through the WorldStar competition, which annually selects the best packaging worldwide. However, the organisation’s most important work is less known. Its main goal is to develop and educate the packaging industry worldwide.
Since 2002, the Secretariat of the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) has been located in Sweden under the direction of Dr Carl Olsmats, who also plays a leading role at the well-respected packaging institute STFI-Packforsk, Sweden.
“Our job at WPO is to promote the benefits of packaging commercially, economically and ecologically as well as from a social perspective,” says Dr Olsmats.
We spread knowledge through education and by exchanging information between members. Most member nations have their own packaging education programmes. If we can transfer knowledge from the developed countries to the underdeveloped ones in a successful way our mission will have succeeded.
It’s important to point out that WPO is a non-profit organisation. All the money we receive is reinvested in projects worldwide,” says Dr Olsmats.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 21 March 2008 20:43 )
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