SIESGST announces Biopack 2013

The first edition of Biopack 2013 has been organised by SIESGST’s department of Printing and Packaging Technology in collaboration with the department of Biotechnology.

Shailesh Jadhav, head of the department, Printing and Packaging Technology, SIESGST, said, “The objective of the conference is to bring professional engineers, academicians, research scholars and industry professionals of matching interests on a common platform to share new ideas, experiences and knowledge in fields of biotechnology and packaging technology.”

The technical sessions will include peer-reviewed paper presentations on varied subjects such as waste management; food packaging technology; eco-friendly technology; recent trends in printing, packaging, and biotechnology, sustainability etc.

According to Jadhav, the researchers, professionals, academicians and students pursuing MSc, M-Tech or PhD, who are interested to present their technical papers at the conference must submit the papers before 7 January 2013.

The submitted papers will be reviewed and scrutinised by a committee of technical experts comprising of Karl Vandenbussche, director, Reynders Label Printing India; Dr CR Abhyankar, chief manager creativity and innovations, Essel Propack; Dr Laszlo Levai, head of department, Institute of Crop Science, University of Debrecen, Hungary among others.

Dr Mili Awasthi, head of the department, Biotechnology, SIESGST, said, “Such interactions will facilitate better understanding about technological developments all across the globe amongst the peers.”

“This conference will certainly ignite the minds of the researchers for undertaking more interdisciplinary collaborative research for up gradation of technology,” concluded Awasthi.

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