How you’d get this certificate
- Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer PIABC Ltd has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and PIABC Ltd awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from PIABC Ltd.
A specialist awarding body offering regulated qualifications, end point assessment and quality assurance services in the materials cycle
These are the units PIABC Ltd registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with PIABC Ltd. It does the teaching and the mapping. PIABC Ltd sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Fundamentals of packaging, substrates and manufacturing conversion processes Real unit · PIABC Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the primary functions of packaging in protecting and containing products.
- Understand the properties of different packaging substrates and materials, and their suitability for various applications.
- Understand the conversion processes involved in transforming raw materials into packaging materials and components.
- Understand proposed packaging substrate and style alternatives to existing packaging solutions.
- Understand the ecological impact associated with specific choices of bio-materials in packaging.
- Understand the processes of recycling, including both chemical and mechanical recycling methods, for packaging materials.
Sustainable Packaging Research Project Real unit · PIABC Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the research process.
- Understand packaging processes and techniques.
- Analyse and apply relevant theory/knowledge to a workplace packaging project.
- Understand the factors that can apply and impact packaging in the environment.
- Formulate a convincing case for packaging change or status quo.
The benefits, issues and requirements for good sustainable packaging choices Real unit · PIABC Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of informed decision making in the context of sustainable packaging.
- Understand the stages and processes involved in new product packaging development.
- Understand the various packaging choices available, considering sustainability factors.
- Understand the principles and application of the Conformité Européenne (CE) mark in relation to packaging.
- Understand the legislative impact on existing and potential new packaging substrate choices.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
- Standard
Research Information and Develop Packaging Design Ideas
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 12 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Packaging Specialist
This work can lead to roles such as Lead Packaging Engineer, designing complete packaging systems, or Packaging Manager, overseeing a team and a product category.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by PIABC Ltd rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Fundamentals of packaging, substrates and manufacturing conversion processesSustainable Packaging Research ProjectThe benefits, issues and requirements for good sustainable packaging choices
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
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How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Fundamentals of packaging, substrates and manufacturing conversion processes, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
This unit covers the fundamental functions of packaging, properties of substrates and materials, and the conversion processes involved in manufacturing packaging components. Learners will gain knowledge of different packaging materials, their applications, and alternative packaging substrate options.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.
Built for PIABC Level 5 Certificate in Sustainable Food Packaging
3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by PIABC Ltd.
- Fundamentals of packaging, substrates and manufacturing conversion processes
- Sustainable Packaging Research Project
- The benefits, issues and requirements for good sustainable packaging choices
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