Great course!
This was a great course! Very comprehensive and very interactive. Despite being in the industry for over 20 years, I learned a lot of new things about polymers and a lot of facts that I've been mistaken about in the past. I also like the fact that...
This was a great course! Very comprehensive and very interactive. Despite being in the industry for over 20 years, I learned a lot of new things about polymers and a lot of facts that I've been mistaken about in the past. I also like the fact that...
Dr. Andrew Hurley
Founder and Associate Professor
About the instructor
Packaging and entrepreneurship came together at an early age for Dr. Andrew Hurley. As a young boy, he molded and sold pewter figurines, but inadequate shipping materials led to breakage. Frustrated, he set to researching better packaging alternatives … and he hasn’t ever stopped.
Dr. Hurley is an Associate Professor at Clemson University in the Department of Food, Nutrition, and Packaging Sciences. He leads the packaging design emphasis area, where he researches how to leverage packaging to solve even the toughest supply chain challenges.
Email us at info@packagingschool.com or call us at 864-412-5000 for more information.
Polymers play a big role in packaging. To be a proficient and well-rounded packaging professional, you need to be comfortable with polymers. When you are working on a project involving plastics, it's important that you are able to speak this language and bring value to the table concerning polymer selection, polymer processing, and plastic applications in packaging. In this course, you are going to learn about the different types of polymers, their roles, functions, pros and cons of each, and real-world applications. From this, you are going to take away which polymers are suitable for the applications you are working on.