Packaging and New Products (6 cr)

Objectives (course unit)

The student knows
- the most common paper and paper board converting products and can describe the manufacturing processes of them
- the raw material used in the different converting products, end usability requirements and markets
- link the knowlegdge to new products in the market and to the ones that could be developed

Content (course unit)

corrugated board and its uses, cases, sleeves, tissue products, wrapping and elastic packings, liquid packaging boards, adhesive laminates, intelligent packings and other fibre based products
- raw-materials and product characteristics
- extrusion coating, dispersion coating, hot-melt and waxing, impregnation, laminating, metallizing, silicon coatin
- cutting and sheeting, bending and die-cutting, creasing, perforating, gluing, cutting, embossing.

Exam schedules

Student can choose two mid term exams or the final exam. Schedule of exams in Tabula. Both part exams has to be passed with minimum grade 1 so that the course can be accepted.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

Contact teaching, study conversation, lecture assignments, laboratory work, report, group work, excursion, presentation, part exam/exam

Learning materials

To be updated

Lecture material (in Tabula) and following books:
Emblem, Henry. Packaging Technology : Fundamentals, Materials and Processes, edited by Anne Emblem, Elsevier Science & Technology, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamperepoly-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1583649, when applicable
Kuusipalo, J. (ed.) Paper and Paperboard Converting, SPIY & Paperi ja Puu Oy, 2008, when applicable
Other material handled at lectures and that are found in Tabula

Student workload

Contact teaching 60 h, independent studying 100 h.

Content scheduling

To be updated
Week 3 Introduction and primary packaging materials
Week 4 Coating and lamination techniques, extrusion coating labwork
Week 5 Coating and lamination techniques continues, Primary packaging techniques, Group exercise start
Week 6 Primary packaging techniques continue
Week 7 Packaging and environment, packaging and legislation
Week 8 Primary packaging development, mid-review of the group exercise

Completion alternatives

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Practical training and working life cooperation

Excursion to the packing company

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

The student doesn´t participate mandatory learning events. The student cannot reach requirements of grade 1.

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

To be updated
Student knows the core contents of the course on the basic level: s/he can name different packaging materials and parts of the packaging process, understand functions of packaging, general demands set by the products to the packing, role of packaging in distribution chain and general environmental considerations, which are related to the packaging. Student participates in the laboratory and group work.

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

To be updated
Student knows the core contents of the course well: s/he can name different packaging materials and parts of the packaging process, understand functions of packaging, general demands set by the products to the packing, role of packaging in distribution chain and general environmental considerations which are related to the packaging. S/he is able to compare different packaging applications and estimate justifying their suitability for the packing of different products. The student acts actively in her/his group promoting the progress of the group work and laboratory work.

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

To be updated
Student has in depth knowledge of the core content of the course. S/he can compare different packaging solutions critically, estimate justifying their suitability for the packing of different products and consider how it could be possible to develop the packaging so that so that the functionality of the product for example in the distribution chain would improve. The student acts actively and by various ways in her/his group with the successful completion of the group work as the objective.