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THE Printing and Allied Trades Research Association has'set up a Packaging Research Committee to carry out investigations concerned with packages of which paper, board, film or foil form the main part. The research work will be carried out by the Association, which will set up a new department for the purpose, using its own laboratories or other research organizations as may be most appropriate. Preliminary consideration will be given to the systematic investigation of the elementary principles of the relation between the make-up of packages and their performance in use. The Association will also collect empirical data from individual firms in Great Britain and abroad with the view of obtaining a basis for long-range research. The outline programme already drawn up includes investigations on the penetration of various packaging materials by vapours, liquids, gases, heat and light, the effect of impregnation with various materials, damage by pests, design of packages, methods of sealing, and optimum use of automatic packaging machinery. Some ninety members of the industry have already applied for membership under the scheme. Communications should be addressed to the Director of Research, Printing and Allied Trades Research Association, 101 Princes Gardens, Acton, London, W.3.
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Packaging Research Committee. Nature 151, 220 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/151220a0
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