PKSC 1020- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 98 pages long!)

• School: Clemson University
• Department: Packaging Science
• Course: PKSC 1020
• Professor: Heather Batt

Document Summary

A protective unit for storing or shipping a commodity too limiting. Coordinated system of preparing goods for transport, distribution, storage, retailing and use of goods still doesn"t cover it well. How the clemson packaging program defines it: It is a field that involves the use of materials, methods and machinery to develop and produce the packages that protect and preserve a product, help market the product and instruct the consumer in its proper use . Consider what life was like in ancient days. Woven grass baskets, shells, wooden bowls, animal hides and skins, coconut shell. 1500 cork stopper used for bottles such as wine (first evidence of protective packaging) 1810 peter durand develops tin cannister. 1868 john hyatt patent for celluloid, leading to development of cellulose, first plastic . 1895 - 1895 toothpaste first offered in tubes (first convenience packaging) 1877 quaker oats first used the quaker man to represent their product.