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Why choose flexible packaging for your product?

As the result of a commitment to innovation, technology, and sustainability, the flexible packaging industry with its value chain actors, of which Mespack is leading company, has made flexible packaging, due to its many advantages, an increasingly popular choice.

First and foremost, flexible packaging makes both edible and non-edible products safer, more convenient, and more enjoyable. Furthermore, value is added, therefore increasing its marketability. Consequently, owing to the combination of the highest material quality, including that of plastic, film, paper, and aluminum foil, it possible to offer multiple protective properties using a minimum amount of material.

Flexible packaging pursues lightness without sacrificing strength, protection, and optimum sealing. Additionally, it makes a product more attractive on the shelf. The versatility and efficiency of flexible packaging, in regard to conserving resources, personalized qualities, and sustainability, make it the ideal option in response to the packaging requirements of a product, irregardless to which industry it belongs.

The following information explains more about the advantages of choosing flexible packaging, which:

Is more sustainable using less raw materials. You can save up to 70% of plastic by changing from rigid to flexible packaging.

Optimizes transport and space, as a result of being lightweight. The weight of various flexible packaged products can be reduced by 50%, consequently decreasing product shipping costs.

Packages a high volume of product with the least amount of packaging possible. To illustrate, 1.5 pounds of flexible packaging will package the same amount of beverage or liquid foods as 50 pounds of glass.

Extends product shelf life and maintain the freshness of your merchandise. As an illustration, the shelf life of cucumbers wrapped in flexible packaging is extended from three days to 14 days; bananas packaged in flexible packaging have a slow ripening process and a prolonged shelf life of up to 35 days

Generates less waste, due to an efficient product-to-package ratio. With an equivalent volume, the production of a flexible food pouch requires 75% less energy than that of a metal can.

Requires less water and energy to manufacture and transport, thus generating small quantities of greenhouse gases on route to the market

– Includes numerous closures and dispensing options for openings and resealings

– Offers highly eye-catching designs as a result of multiple customization options

Flexible packaging is at the forefront of packaging trends that are related to various product aspects, such as design and performance, protection, consumer convenience, and sustainability. Consequently, the environment, consumers, and businesses all benefit.

At Mespack, we will not only accompany you with this transition to flexible packaging but also to make the leap to produce packaging with recyclable, recycled, biodegradable or compostable materials.  

We encourage you to contact us to explain your project: https://mespack.com/contact/

Source: Flexible Packaging Association

Flexible packaging, one of the best solutions for cheese packaging

Grated, diced, in powder or in portions (pre-cut or not) ranging from 100 g to 3 kg, mixes of various varieties in a single format… cheese packaging is constantly changing. And in response to consumers’ new demands, flexible packaging is becoming established as one of the best packaging solutions.

“Cheese is increasingly packaged in stand-up pouch or stick pack formats”, confirms Santi Alberich, Marketing Manager for Mespack. “Society’s consumption model has changed. Currently, consumers want packages in various sizes that are convenient, easy to store, easy to open and close, to dose and/or to serve, and which protect the product both before and after opening. This is why packaging machine manufacturers such as Mespack specifically choose to offer their customers packaging machines compatible with these formats that protect the product”, he continues.

Furthermore, unlike the classic and inconvenient thermoformed packaging, which is still used today to package triangular cheese portions, hindering the product’s preservation once opened, “flexible stand-up pouch or flat pouch-type packaging, for example, feature the advantage of a zipper. This enables the user to open and close the packaging as many times as they like conveniently and securely in order to consume the product gradually, further increasing its lifespan”, adds the company’s Marketing Manager.

Packaging made from recycled, organic or 100%-compostable material contributes to reducing the flexible packaging industry’s carbon footprint
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Different formats and different sizes

Similarly, the design and finish also play a highly important distinguishing role in cheese packaging. As a result, manufacturers request flexible machines, with quick format changes and even automatic ones. This is something covered by Mespack’s packaging machines. “Our equipment can manufacture formats in different shapes and sizes depending on the market or distribution channel. For example, using our VFFS multilane machines, manufacturers can package spreadable cheese or dry cheese, in stick pack bottle shaped format, enabling them to offer consumers attractive on-the-go formats to take a single portion on a picnic, to work or wherever they go”, highlights Alberich. “Same can be done with HFFS equipment, offering a wider variety of shapes, applications such as zipper and formats”.

There is also a broad range of filling machines for pre-made pouches for manufacturers who require such a format.
“And for cheeses such as mozzarella or cheeses with oil, Mespack’s packaging machines are prepared to offer high production levels, filling the pouch with two different products”, the company’s Marketing Manager points out.

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