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Master the different aspects of corrugated board in two days!


As a buyer, you will be given a broad but also sufficiently in-depth basis so that you can communicate on an equal footing with your supplier. As a salesperson, you will gain a better understanding of your customers' expectations. As a production or quality employee, you will have a lot of information at your disposal that will help you to clearly assess and deal with different issues.


Speaker

Karel Van den Abbeele - Quality Officer VPK Packaging Group

Active quality officer with over 37 years of industry experience!


The program is practical with a diversity of examples and experience from different sectors.


Program - Day 1 (18/11/2025)

  • Introduction: definitions, why corrugated board ...
  • Paper as a raw material: origin of fibers (virgin fiber and recycled fiber), fabric preparations, paper machines, basic data different types of paper
  • Tests and properties of paper: standards, devices, significance towards corrugated board
  • Corrugated board: corrugator, creasing types, introduction to corrugated types
  • Testing and properties of corrugated board: standards, devices, meaning, extra attention to ECT, establishing correlations to correctly estimate non-standard grades
  • Choice of paper types and corrugated types: comparison between paper types and corrugated types, position of paper types and corrugations in a carton complex


Program - Day 2 (19/11/2025)

  • Product groups: FEFCO codes, examples
  • Finishing machines: punching machines: flat punch and rotary punch, inline machines
  • Printing: flexo printing, raster, HQ flexo, digital printing
  • Testing of corrugated boxes: compression test on empty and filled boxes, creasing resistance, drop test, horizontal impact test, vibration test
  • Visit to the IBE-BVI laboratory
  • Box calculations: box dimension and sizing, strength calculations: McKee, Zwick, Neuronal Network
  • Processing: set-up machines, examples
  • Legislation and standards: ADR (UN), FSC, PEFC...food safety
  • Challenges: trends ...


Company visit (To be confirmed)

This course is supplemented by a company visit at VPK Packaging Group in Dendermonde. This visit will start at 2 pm with reception by Management, followed by a tour of the production facilities. The end of the visit is scheduled around 4 pm.


We reserve the right to refuse people/companies on the basis of competition. Should there be insufficient interested parties, this visit may also be cancelled.


Practical information:

  • Language: English
  • Timing: 9u00 - 16u30
  • Included in the price: Course, course material, coffee breaks, sandwiches for lunch

Price: All prices do not include VAT

  • Member IBE-BVI Group: ​ €730.00
  • Member federation (Comeos; Essenscia; INDUFED (Cobelpa/Fetra)):  €880.00
  • Non-member:  €980.00
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