He was born in 1961 in Karabük. After studying in Karabük until high school, he continued his high school and university life in Istanbul. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Engineering in 1986 and graduated from the Department of Business Economics at Istanbul University. After completing his military service, he started to work in Şişecam in 1990 as Mold Design Engineer. Since then, he has worked successfully in various departments of the company. Today, he continues to work as Design Manager. Öztürk and his team increased the prestige of Şişecam Glass Packaging Group in the sector thanks to the patented innovative projects as well as the awards they won with many design and product projects they prepared.
Presentation Title: Glass Packaging and Design
As a natural product, glass is the healthiest packaging material. Thanks to many superior characteristics resulted from its naturalness, glass is irresistible through centuries. However, changing market structures, rapidly diversifying products, customer expectations, the desire of the producers to move to new areas cause the increase of the packaging types. Besides many details, the design of the product packaging is becoming more important in terms of being appealing among many options. Glass packaging is suitable for various design applications with its advantages of being a natural product.