The Swiss Packaging Institute SVI will be headed by Stephan Bitterlin from 1 October 2018. He succeeds Andreas Zopfi, who left the SVI in the spring. The 53-year-old has been working in the packaging industry for 25 years, most recently as a member of the executive board at Sanaro SA. He is a trained technician and a packaging and logistics engineer. At Philip Morris, he worked as a packaging development project manager and then joined Nestlé Suisse SA where he took on leadership roles in various areas of the packaging division.