Most vegetable packaging materials are made corrugated fiberboard but they can also be comprised of plastic, wood or Styrofoam depending on the specific crop’s shipping and packaging needs. Of the rigid containers for vegetable packaging, corrugated fiberboard is the most popular because of its versatility, serviceability, stacking strength and low cost of production. Corrugated fiberboard is also recyclable with superior strength (with case and carton reinforcement) when wet (if coated properly) as well as has excellent printability for branded packaging.
Because vegetable packaging with corrugated fiberboard has the possibility of being printed on, it also presents the opportunity of being retail ready with key branding and messaging. Post-printed packaging is printed following the assembly of the case and is often limited to a few colors and less intensive graphics. Preprinted cartons allow for bright and detailed logos, branding and messaging, making preprinted vegetable packaging an excellent way for famers to make their products retail ready.
In many cases, the corrugated fiberboard vegetable packages themselves are assembled just before use. The ease of assembly on the manufacturing line is one of many items to be considered when considering any style of produce packaging and some packages may be assembled by a machine, by hand or a blend of both. Because these corrugated fiberboard packages must meet the three standards of produce packaging, this also means they must be assembled for strength, durability and even beauty. This is most often accomplished through the use of vegetable packaging adhesive technologies.
No comments:
Post a Comment