NVC Course Programme in Packaging I - middle management

The course

Upon completing the course programme, you will have thorough knowledge of the production process, the qualities, the possibilities and the impossibilities of packaging materials and resources. A strategy based on the packaging materials enables you in optimising the relationship between the packaging and the product, at middle management level. You will be able to analyse the vulnerabilities of the product and find the suitable packaging. Based on a functional analysis of the packaging, you can implement improvements and/or cost savings.

During the course programme you will visit packaging material production locations where you will experience the actual production of packaging materials. The lessons are scheduled in blocks of three consecutive days per month.

Through the NVC online learning environment (learningatnvc.nl) you always have online access to the educational materials, the schedule of the lessons in the course programme and instructions for preparation and exercises. This enables you in studying wherever and whenever you like before, during and in between the lessons. During the course programme you can also contact your NVC contact person for your questions.

The language of this course programme is business English. Educational materials, exercises and the lessons are in English.

For whom?

The NVC Course Programme in Packaging I has been designed for employees in middle management who (will) work on packaged products, packaging (materials), packaging machinery and/or related services.

Programme

• Functionalities of packaging (1 day)

• Vulnerabilities of products (1 day)

• Testing methods (0,5 day)

• Durable and dangerous goods (0,5 day)

• Wood (0,5 day)

• Paper and board (2 days)

• Metal (1 day)

• Plastics (rigid and flexible) (4,5 days)

• Biopolymers (0,5 day)

• Glass (1 day)

• Printing techniques (1 day)

• Adhesives (2 day)

• Specifications (1 day)

• Essential requirements, packaging and environment (0,5 day)

• Legislation of food contact materials and labelling legislation (0,5 day)

• Hazardous substances (0,5 day)

• Machine techniques (2 days)

• Packaging Processes (0,5 day)

• Marketing perception (1 day)

• Cost savings (0,5 day)

• Distribution (1 day)

• Exam practicing (1 day)

Tutors and education team

Our tutors are professionally active in the specific packaging fields of the course programme, which enables all the newest issues and developments to be quickly incorporated into the lessons. You will be guided by the tutors during the lessons, they know your business and create connections between theory and your business cases.