Sustainability & Economy
Drive Trends In Packaging
Today's packaging marketplace continues to grow significantly "greener." The priority is on reducing our carbon footprint by using smarter, faster, lighter, and better materials and processes. By making good use of the options available, folks are working to yield enough "green" to keep their businesses thriving. With the world's economic woes dominating the daily headlines, we must enlarge the scope of our frugality and find new ways to do more with less.
Moving from rigid to flexible packaging is one way smart packagers do just that. The transport, material handling, warehousing and shipping of rigid package containers contribute dramatically to the total cost of packaging as well as to carbon emissions. A single truckload of flexible packaging can replace 25 trucks of rigid packaging. Reducing shipping by a factor of 24 is as good for the bottom line as it is for the environment.
A wide variety of products including trail mix, cake and muffin mix, snacks, juices, crackers, candy, and many others that were packaged in metal, glass or chipboard are going to flexible standup pouches. Danafilms assists packaging converters in achieving the performance and barrier characteristics required. Package weight and size can be reduced. Reclosable zippers, spouts, handles and other features can be added. The package becomes more durable and waterproof. It provides increased convenience and freshness. The improvement in graphics quality can be staggering.
Whole new package categories emerge. Stick packaging is the latest innovation hot on the scene. A stick is a small packet of powdered drink mix in a laminated structure, usually PET laminated to monolayer film. It allows the consumer to mix up a single serving of drink quickly and conveniently. It is finding great success in revitalizing old products and in launching hot new products, like Starbuck's® instant coffee. It greatly reduces packaging bulk, shipping weight and space over premixed drinks (no water or large containers)—and ultimately packaging waste.
In a similar way, products formerly packed in multi-wall paper, such as pet foods and lawn and garden products, continue to make the switch to better yielding poly coextrusions. These also offer much improved graphics along with a three-fold reduction in the amount of packaging materials required. This "gain through reduction" meets all of the necessary barrier requirements and keeps costs in check.
Even secondary packaging gets in the act. An overwrap of new and improved preprinted shrink film can allow the beverage packager to forgo the corrugated tray, while providing a superior format for the brand's advertising at the point-of-purchase.
By providing decreased packaging materials to the consumer and lighter case weights, the producer also generates savings on storage, fuel to transport, freight, and ultimately, downstream waste. Please call 800.634.8289 to find out how Danafilms can help you achieve these goals.
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