On Tuesday 27 June 2023, the Live Hybrid graduation ceremony NVC Packaging Professionals took place from the Best Western hotel in Gouda, The Netherlands. 
 

Sixteen (16) business students passed the exam in 2023 and can now be referred to as NVC Packaging Professional. 

The following company students obtained the diploma NVC Packaging Professional I: 

Jennifer Verkerk, Qizini; Cecillia Mehta-van Dongen, Royal A-ware Packaging; Emma Broome, JACOBS DOUWE EGBERTS RTL NL; Jan van Ommen, Wärtsilä Global Logistic Services; Maarten van Loenen, Bangma Verpakking; Amber Heemskerk, FrieslandCampina Domo, Judith Witte, MSD Animal Health; Vincent Ubbens, Bark Verpakkingen; Sebastiaan Althof, The Kraft Heinz Company; Yunshu Li, Gemini Group of Companies; Maria Clelia Parnoffi, The Kraft Heinz Company; Simone de Vries-van der Schaaf, Südpack Grootegast; Mike Biemans, FrieslandCampina International; Leon Kompanje, Kompak Nederland; Lars Weernekers, Teamplast and Laurens Hazen, Budelpack.

The new graduates are included in the Register NVC Packaging Professionals, which now holds 747 names.
 

NVC Packaging Professionals have acquired a thorough knowledge of the production of packaging materials, the possibilities and limitations of packaging materials and, above all, knowledge of the relationship between the product and the packaging, both for food and non-food products. They make a major contribution to packaging solutions and decisions within and outside their organisation.
 

Groups of the NVC Course Programme in Packaging I start twice a year. In 2023 the next group will start on 20 September and in 2024 a new group will start on 20 March.

For more information contact NVC Manager Education and Training Oscar Faber at o.faber@nvc.nl or phone +31-(0)182-512411.