Jaco Scheepers, a packaging technologist at Synlait Milk, has been given the chance to build on his skills through a Packaging Council of New Zealand Scholarship.
Scheepers will enrol in the Diploma in Packaging Technology to the value of $9000.
Scheepers has always had an interest in polymer materials, additives and plastic conversion processes, especially in flexible packaging materials.
During grocery shopping and where possible elsewhere, he regularly looks at different packaging types to satisfy his natural curiosity of materials and packaging.
He has learned that the integrity, quality or shelf-life of a product is directly linked to correct material choice and design of the packaging configuration.
Scheepers would like to broaden his knowledge across a range of different packaging materials, which will allow him in years to come to develop, along with the packaging team at Synlait Milk, new and hopefully award-winning consumer packaging products that are both environmentally friendly and made from sustainable resources.
