Flexible Packaging Playbook
Your vital resource is here! Updated and expanded for 2013! Have you been confronted with a flexible packaging assignment and don’t know where to start? Here you’ll find best practices and helpful hints—and pitfalls to avoid—on your next flexible packaging project. Leading packaging experts from every part of the process have contributed their up-to-the-minute insights.
Trust in the collective wisdom of dozens of packaging professionals. In this Playbook, you’ll find everything from film attributes and polymer properties to oriented films and sustainability strategies. Ever wondered whether it’s better to use pre-made bags or make them yourself using form/fill/seal technology? This Playbook will discuss your options.
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Topics covered (among others)
Package development
- Latest trends in flexible package design
- Best practices in flexible package development
- Commonly specified film attributes
- Detailed properties for film structures (table)
- Flexible packaging polymer primer
- Polymer selection guide (table)
- Glossary of additives and modifiers
- Film manufacturing techniques
- Cast vs. blown film characteristics
- Understanding oriented films
- Waste to energy: Worth a second look
- How flexible packaging projects fail
Flexible packaging machinery
- Trends in form/fill/seal equipment
- Best practices for specifying form/fill/seal machinery
- Six tips on finding the right f/f/s supplier
- Best practices for flow-wrapping
- Vendor evaluation methodology for f/f/s equipment
- Pre-made bags vs. form/fill/seal
- Roadmap for a successful factory acceptance test
- Determining when to rebuild or replace a form/fill/seal machine
- Tips for a successful flexible packaging line start-up
- Six common pitfalls to avoid on bagging machinery projects
Bonus! Flexible packaging photo gallery
- New examples of winning flexible package designs hand-selected by our editors (all-new packages updated for 2013).
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