The Packing Precision

With the rise of ecommerce, many of the manufacturers are making their products available for the potential customers living on the other side of the world. In this scenario, they have to make their products ready for the shipping process.

It becomes really challenging for the manufacturers to ensure product’s safety when the product is a liquid chemical. In such cases, the chances of failure of packaging are raised. A sudden change in temperature or altitude can cause the packaging to contract or expand. In the best case scenario, the packaging’s aesthetics will be ruined. In worst case, the packaging will leak or explode. In either way, the customer experience is going to be affected. Your revenue will be affected, and you will have to deal with frequent returns.

The packaging failures

Packaging is done for the purpose of keeping the product safe and giving the product a brand representation. It means that a product packaging has to be attractive to the customers while ensuring the quality of product filled inside. However, poor packaging methods can lead to the malfunctioning of the package. As a result, the signs of failures such as paneling, bloating, leaking, or bursting become obvious.

Paneling occurs when pressure inside the bottle is lower than that outside of the bottle. As a result, the shape of the bottle might become distorted. Any paper or shrink sleeve labels on the bottle will wrinkle.

Paneling can be an issue for the packaging of following products.

Cleaners

Enzymes

Bio-diesels

Products that contain essential oils

Bloating is another issue which can occur with the packages containing certain types of products. Bloating is actually opposite to paneling; i.e. this issue occurs due to the higher pressure inside the bottle as compared to the lower pressure of the ambient environment outside the bottle.

The products that can get affected by bloating may include:

Fertilizers

Super concentrated hydrogen peroxide

Vitamins and supplements

Pesticides

Certain cleaning agents

Solution to the packaging failures

People are getting more concerned about the nutritious value of the products they purchase. And so, the role of packaging has become vital in this regard as it is the packaging which has to tell the customers about the food packaged inside. Moreover, the packaging has to play its part in maintaining the quality of product. This is where the concept of clean packaging comes into play.

What is clean packaging?

First of all, we will discuss about clean label. Clean label is referred to the quality and authenticity of the real foods.  Any food is considered clean label if it is based on simple, familiar and natural ingredients. These ingredients are essentially understandable, recognizable, and easy to pronounce. Many of the companies comply with this trend by banning the ingredients which tend to make a food item getting disqualified for being clean label.

Clean processing is another aspect to be taken care of. Clean processing essentially involves cold pressing, fermentation, high-pressure processing and other procedures to process the food items. These processes tend to ensure the safety of ingredients while making sure that food doesn’t fall into the category of processes foods.

Here, it would be worth mentioning that only clean labeling and processing aren’t enough. The customers need to know that the food item they are purchasing has been maintained well with the help of the packaging too. This is where the concept of ‘clean packaging’ comes into play. The food packaging has been a major point of concern for most of the customers. This is the reason that clean packaging has the potential to convince customers about the safety of products.

A recent study suggests that customers are now more concerned about the packaging and they expect it to be helpful in maintaining the quality of products which specifically include health products, foods and beverages.

So, what do the manufacturers need to do?

Since customers remain on the drivers’ seat, it is quite important for the manufacturers to ensure the quality of products in a way that customers remain satisfied without breaking the bank. You have worked hard to maintain the quality of product by ensuring its cleanliness. You wouldn’t really want to risk its quality by putting it into a non-clean packaging.

In this scenario, packaging food products in glass bottles is the ideal way to maintain the quality of foods because glass bottles aren’t normally perceived to change the taste of the foods. 47% of the customers feel that aluminum can change the taste of the foods. 43% feel the same about plastic containers. And 12% of the people say the same thing about glass bottles.