Where Packaging Innovation Meets Emerging Talent

Launched in 2004, the Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA) annual Student Flexible Packaging Design Challenge has become a leading platform for technical innovation, creative problem solving, and workforce development within the flexible packaging industry. The competition complements FPA’s annual Flexible Packaging Achievement Awards Competition, which recognizes breakthrough advancements from FPA member companies across packaging materials, converting technologies, printing, sustainability, and package engineering. Together, these programs demonstrate the industry’s commitment to innovation and to developing the next generation of packaging professionals. Over the past two decades, the Student Flexible Packaging Design Challenge has evolved into one of the industry’s most respected educational initiatives, providing packaging students with an opportunity to create commercially viable, technically advanced, and sustainability-focused flexible packaging solutions.

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