Paper and Board Coatings & Treatments Course
Master paper and board coatings for high-performance packaging. Learn coating chemistry, barrier design, application methods, testing, cost and sustainability so you can engineer food-safe, glossy, recyclable solutions that work on real production lines.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This short, practical course gives you a complete overview of paper and board coatings and treatments for packaging. You will learn substrate fundamentals, coating pigments, binders and additives, application methods, drying and calendering, as well as barrier design. The program also covers lab and pilot testing, recyclability, regulatory aspects, cost drivers and scale-up decisions for robust, compliant solutions.
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Develop skills
- Design coating formulations: quickly tune gloss, opacity and liquid barrier.
- Select paperboards: match structure, porosity and stiffness to food packaging.
- Optimize coating processes: set solids, rheology, drying and calendering.
- Validate performance in lab: run gloss, Cobb, Kit and printability tests.
- Balance cost and sustainability: meet FDA/EU rules and recyclability goals.
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