The ability to custom design corrugated packaging for specific use underlies its versatility and performance in a wide variety of product and distribution scenarios. To design and engineer an efficient and cost-effective package, it is important to understand the package performance requirements of the environment.

Great packaging tells your customers about your product, your brand and what you stand for, and is a must for anyone producing physical goods for the consumer marketplace. You must get creative with your packaging design to portray the right message to the right people—and you need to attract your target market and get them excited to buy your product. When it comes to packaging food, there are many factors to take into consideration for a successful product.

Today's chub packaging for meats simplifies handling for consumers and on the packaging line. When research showed consumers want to minimize contact with raw meat, Cargill added an easy-peel feature to its Our Certified brand of ground beef in one-pound chubs.

Protective packaging comes in both material and container form. It safeguards the product as a candy bar wrapper or can; and as a container, like a box for shipping with the product inside.

Highlights at PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2017 include a range of pre-formed tubes and bags that provide greater product protection and improved material stability. The audience can put the films’ mechanical properties to the test and find out how to benefit from Mondi’s blown-film extrusion technology. 

More than half of this waste occurs in households and poorly-designed packaging is one of the primary culprits. 

Advancements in films – for nearly all types of packaging – continue to prove we are only touching the surface of these dominant materials. Nowadays, consumers as well as retailers pay more attention to packaging that keeps products safe, including films, when making their purchasing decision.

Healthcare is a booming business in the United States, and that fact is creating tremendous growth opportunities for both pharmaceutical and medical device packaging.