Professional qualification (CQP) in packaging design and industrialisation

This course offers a professional qualification from the paper and cardboard industries.

Its aim is to develop and recognise the skills of employees in the fields of packaging design and industrialisation in the paper and cardboard industries.

What are the objectives?

Employees who attend this course are capable of:

Suggesting creative and technical packaging solutions.

Taking into account customers’ marketing and technical requirements, and developing appropriate detailed models and mock-ups.

Adapting their creations to the business’s production systems, and of developing basic industrial production tools.

Who can attend this course?

This training course is suitable for new recruits or experienced employees working in or wishing to join R &D services in the cardboard, corrugated board and POS material sectors.

How is the training delivered?

All the training takes place at Esepac, using industry standard software and tools.

How is the training organised?

Eight 5-day modules
256 training hours in total
Trainers: Esepac and approved training providers
Price: please contact us

Training programme content

Draw up the design specifications negotiated with the customer

Structure design specifications
Understand how the product will be used and its purposes
Understand the requirements of sustainable development and eco-design
Understand how to read and interpret a customer plan

Draw up a plan and a functioning prototype

Learn technologies of design and creation in cardboard and corrugated board, using Artios CAD software
Manufacture a functioning prototype
Explore creativity and graphic design techniques

Putting a graphic design into practice

Learn printing and colouring techniques, explore the graphic design process
Implement a graphic design, photogravure

Optimise the chosen solution for industrialisation

Optimise a design for production tools, methods, choice of materials and design of tools
Optimise economic aspects of producing the chosen solution
Master basic volume concepts for bases, lids, seams, flaps, slots, surrounds…

Measure and evaluate the technical performance of designs in cardboard

Know the principal norms and tests for paper and cardboard boxes and packaging, test the various structures
Learn about FMECA analysis and audit processes, optimise design to meet sustainable development requirements