Hardware Podcasts

31 - Karen Aranha - Chocolate Packaging and growing up in India

People of Packaging · 30 Jul 2020 · 53m

What this episode covers

Karen Aranha, a packaging engineer at PCA on-site at Hershey's, shares her journey from growing up in Mumbai, India, to working in the packaging industry. She discusses her educational path, including a pivotal moment in college that led her to packaging engineering, and her early career at Unilever working on personal care products like Vaseline. Aranha details her transition to corrugated packaging for chocolate at Hershey's and offers advice to companies on hiring international students navigating complex US visa processes like OPT and H1B.

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early-stage companies and companies scaling up

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Companies
PCA, Hershey's, Unilever, RIT, Adapt Packaging
Products
Vaseline, Fair and Lovely

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