Greener Corporation provides a broad range of Flexible Packaging Materials Consulting resources for flow wrappers and vertical baggers.
Whether you need to assess your current material or evaluate new structures, our materials and machinery experts can help you Establish Objectives, Identify Options, Run Trials, and to Select and Implement the material that best meets your objectives.
Integrated Solutions
Greener’s integrated approach considers how the design and condition of your flow wrappers or vertical baggers will affect results and determines what machine adjustments or component updates may be needed.
Early Involvement & Collaboration
The earlier in your selection project that we work with you, and the more we collaborate with packagers, machinery OEMs, and materials suppliers, the more effectively we can integrate four essential elements of your process to produce optimal, timely results.
1. Establish Packaging Objectives
Greener can help you establish clear packaging objectives, based on the requirements of your product, distribution channel, and other criteria, that provide important standards for evaluating a material’s performance.
Barrier Properties
Barrier Properties protect against the transfer of odors, gases, or moisture.
Seal Integrity
Seal Integrity should correlate with your barrier requirements.
Sustainability
Sustainable recyclable and compostable materials must meet specific compositional and structural guidelines.
Machinability
Machinability testing indicates how a material’s thickness, stiffness, coefficient of friction, thermal conductivity, and other properties affect the packaging process.
Cost
Per-package material cost and the anticipated costs of machine downtime and scrap rates must also be considered.
2. Identify New Material Options
If you are unable to meet your objectives with your current material, we can help determine a list of new material options—perhaps even suggesting materials you may not have considered.
3. Trials and Evaluations
To help narrow your initial list down to the most promising options, Greener can assist with preliminary machine trials at your facility or run these trials in our Packaging Lab.
We can then help you run more extensive trials with this refined list of materials.
Adjustments and Part Designs
Before you run trials, Greener can assess the characteristics of these materials and recommend machine adjustments or updates to former, sealing jaw, and other part designs that are needed to optimize results and get a truer picture of each material’s potential.
A new material that meets your objectives for sustainability, for instance, might require higher seal initiation temperatures and be more easily damaged by excess pressure.
Package Testing
To evaluate machine trial results, we’ll help you establish criteria and determine the best package testing methods. For example, if your product does not require a material with a strong oxygen barrier, then seal integrity does not need to be hermetic.
Packages can be tested at your facility or in our Packaging Lab.
4. Select and Implement New Material
Well executed machine trials and testing can be used to determine which flexible packaging material best meets your objectives in a production setting.
We will help you implement changes to adjustment procedures and component designs, along with any necessary training, on the wrappers or baggers that will run the new material and ensure consistent results across different makes or models of machinery and at multiple facilities.
Greener’s Flexible Packaging Materials Consulting provides an additional resource to help you integrate and improve all aspects of your packaging process.
To learn more about solutions for improving package quality and productivity on flow wrappers and vertical baggers, contact Greener Corporation. We provide integrated parts and technical services worldwide.
