ABOUT THIS COURSE

  • Explore Packaging Technologies

    Compare packaging materials, machine types, sealing methods, and pack styles used in biscuit production.

  • Protect Product Quality

    Understand how packaging preserves freshness, prevents damage, and extends shelf life.

  • Learn Industry Best Practices

    Explore current trends in sustainability, consumer expectations, and packaging innovation.

Course curriculum

  1. 1

    • Introduction

    • Comparison of Packaging Materials
  2. 2

    • Price Sensitivity

    • Portfolio Development

    • Population Growth, Urbanization and Pack Size

    • Sustainability
  3. 3

    • Product Protection and Consumer Safety
  4. 4

    • What is Water Activity?

    • Quiz
  5. 5

    • Cast Film

    • Orientation (Stretching)

    • Blown Film

    • Common Plastic Types

    • Coextrusion

    • Coating

    • Lamination

    • Barrier Properties

    • PPWR (Packaging and Packaging Wast Regulation)
  6. 6

    • From HFFS and X-Fold Packaging to VFFS and Horizontal Pouch Machines

    • Pack Style Evaluation

    • Other Pack Styles
  7. 7

    • Sealing Methods

    • Biscuit Handling

    • Final Assignment

INSTRUCTOR

Jacob van Kogelenberg

Jacob van Kogelenberg is a mechanical engineer with additional business administration training and has 40 years of experience in the packaging machinery industry. I have worked 15 years with Tevopharm Schiedam, Netherlands, building flow wrap and roll wrap machines with automatic feeding equipment, a few years in Brazil for Klöckner Hänsel do Brazil building the same type of equipment, and after a short period in bottling equipment, 16 years for SIG ( Schweizer Industrie Gesellschafft), later Bosch Packaging Systems in Beringen, Switzerland. That company again is leader in high speed packaging equipment for biscuits, chocolate, granola bars, but also stick pack and sachet for powders and cartoning equipment for these packs. Since December 2012 I am an independent consultant.