Esko hosts flexible packaging graduates

Flexible Packaging Honours Class is an initiative of the Graphical and Digital Media department of the Artevelde University College Ghent, and covers design, pre-press, file handling and platemaking operations. The training program is complemented by three Esko customer visits to demonstrate the reality of production, with the 2017 class visiting small format flexible packaging converter St-Luc Labels & Packaging, wide format flexible packaging converter Segers & Balcaen, and Athena Graphics, a flexible packaging service provider and trade shop.

This is the third time this course has been staged, and was held at Esko’s headquarters in Ghent, Belgium on June 19-30. The Honours Class has been extended to educational partners of Artevelde University College Ghent from abroad, bringing peer-to-peer learning and exchange of best practices to an international level. The 2017 class welcomed students from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Linköping University in Sweden, and both Seneca College and Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada.

Luc Berth, lector at Artevelde University College Ghent, and mentor of the Honours Class, added: ‘The Honours Class 2017 has ticked all the boxes: the students have deepened competences relevant for a competitive and rewarding career in the packaging industry. They learned how to cooperate in an international context and have exchanged knowledge and best practices in an open and friendly atmosphere. The Honours Class is a great platform for both technical as well as cultural and social experience-based learning for our young and ambitious students.’