Each annual year the commercial and industrial market survey new advances on packed containments through business pitches and Best in Packaging exhibitions. Either launch of a new container device unveils what could potentially reach retail shelves for daily consumption.
The constant technological enhancements are predominantly to improve customer convenience, though manufacturers and brands produce Food Packaging to that of Bags & Sacks for external attraction purposes. Whatever the case may be it encourages the packaging solutions trade towards excitement as new innovations parade new methods of holding food or drink or cosmetics never seen before.
Bespoke packaging and design services vastly cover the market spectrum from smaller items such as Catering Disposals to Cleaning equipment to electronic cover protections. This makes it an ideal for branding and advertising and succumbs the phrase ‘anything is possible’.
According to the dedicated Worldwide Innovations in Packaging Technology numerous unknowns of substantial plastics, papers, cards and eco-friendly recyclables are in the process of being mass-produced and awaiting shipment into our stores.
Below is a countdown of just a select that could be present within your household in the near future;
Papermilk
According to FSC certification the long established Italian paper supplier Gruppo Cordenons have expanded their field by architecting and manufacturing the Papermilk carton. The GC brander is already a global name in offering over 2500 graphic and technical papers, but have lately with collaborator Susanna Bonati focused on retailing milk with the addition of a velvet thermal coat (Figure 1).
Regular milk cartons are constructed using folded matted card that is resistant to the wet and layered enough to prevent leakage. Gruppo Cordenons have followed the technology of its competitors (i.e. no need for a Lid or a Straw) but have led astray from the recyclable card and replaced it with luxurious milk fibres, cotton linter and pure virgin cellulose.
The thermography has the Papermilk logotype not printed but rather hot and dry relief printed with the typography scripted using laser etching. The specialist paper means that the containing liquid can be contained with or without Foil.
Gruppo Cordenons claim that this version of a long-standing milk container will add softness and a pleasant velvet effect towards the drinking experience.
Figure 1
Image taken from www.fmcgnews.co.uk
EcoTensil PopOut SpoonLidz
According to surveyors of food and drink goods The NPD Group, over 71% of paying customers are influenced the measure of health each items consists of. Furthermore the same study led to discovering that around 64% of the population bought Eco produce.
Environmental concerned group EcoTensil Inc. have took note of these statistics and enabled the pop-up Cutlery and Utensil called the PopOut SpoonLidz. Moulded via a smooth paperboard not too dissimilar to that of a Paper Cup, the SpoonLidz can functionally act as if a Lid of a Food Container and when detached will spring into a sturdy spoon to cater for the content.
Mon Fruit Juste Mixe
A majority of the consumer population adore the taste of numerous fruits if part of an essence flavoured water or cordial drink in a bottle or blended towards a sauce. The same majority however may not enjoy the fruit itself mainly through dislike of the textural property.
French juicers N.A! (Les Nature Addicts or Nature Addicts) conceived this fact and adapted a juice that would pleasure the liking of the flavours but also provide the nutritional value of an individual fruit breed. This product entitled the Mon Fruit Juste Mixe is capable of doing such through the innovative design of its packaging.
Through a pouch and sucking cap system the brand has prompted a container visually replicate towards the dedicated fruits shape, size and external identity filled with blended compote. This means that the item from afar on the shelf appears to be the natural breed but in reality is a squeezable- pouched fruit drink without the added toxins of sugar, preservatives, dyes or sweeteners (Figure 2).
Figure 2
Image taken from www.thedieline.com
Remind-A-Cap
Patients implementing medical medication on a daily or weekly basis can often forget and miss days out or be confused of which date to consume the next amount or worse lose them. Another problem the medicated group face is the technology behind the screw-cap bottle. Initiated with a child-lock the lid requires a press and twist motion in order to open the container and have access to the capsules. Many people however find this and the awkward moments faced above difficult to follow.
Packagers Berlin Packaging want to enhance the strategy of the typical Pharmaceutical bottle with a three-piece-closure. The mechanical dial Remind-A-Cap appears similar with an outer cap of the brand corporate identity and prescript instructions. This lid with Rippled texture for easy grip is too accompanied with a CRC (Child Resistant Closure) to lock everything in place.
It does however have a new formality on the underside that states the dosage to be taken and a small window on the top of the cap reading a reminder of the date for next consumption. The same Lid and inner dial also consists of a plastic wing of further risen bumps to make gripping and opening the device easier for the elderly and those with limited hand mobility.
