Innovation with impact

We help you to achieve meaningful package innovation, more rapidly and with less internal resources. 

To do this, we infuse Brands, Packaging Suppliers and Converters, and Retailers with our science and value chain acumen to make sure packaging innovation happens.

We identify and provide rationale for key innovations that are essential to your brand.

This ensures  that packaging innovation has a strong business case and aligns with your Internal ROI targets, and with what is needed by Sales, Marketing Retail, Ecommerce and Consumer and Customers. 

PTR has lead dozens of initiatives and built Innovation Roadmaps for 35years.

​Specific Capabilities, Case Studies of prior work, and Toolkit follow.   

Reach out to discuss how we can help you achieve your food packaging innovation goals > 

Our food packaging innovation capabilities

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Science Advisor reporting to Leadership Team

Define the Future of Food Packaging for your brand

• Assess the Strength, Weakness, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT)  of your packaging
• SWOT based on Packaging’s role in meeting Internal, Sales, Marketing Retail, Ecommerce and Consumer and Customer needs

 
Develop Innovation RoadMap to achieve  1,3,5, 10 year initiatives linked with product and production innovations

• Actionable Strategies that align with Internal ROI, Sales, Marketing, Retail, Ecommerce and Consumer and Customer needs
• Packaging that aligns with emerging processing and ingredient technology
• Core and specific technology and science and value chain initiatives needed to achieve innovation
• Development Pathways to capitalize on specific technology and science and value chain initiatives 
• Identify, screen and rank food packaging science and value chain solutions to address an issue

Identify, screen and rank food packaging science and value chain solutions to address an issue
 
Science-based M&A Guidance 
 
Rapid Implementation

• Reenforce the business case for innovation
• Develop and refine prototypes
•  Implement more package change with an eye to cost savings

Presentations and Training sessions covering specific areas of innovation and material science within food packaging for R&D, Marketing, Sales

• This gets the team up-to-date on a technology or process
• Remote or in-person
• Company specific

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View our Strategy and Roadmaps Capabilities Deck

Related Client Case Studies:

PTR has 35+ years of extensive experience leading and supporting innovation. Read our selected Case Studies of prior more Innovation work.

Contact us to discuss your food packaging innovation project >

Dr Claire Sand
Food Packaging Expert | Packaging Scientist, Consultant, Speaker, Author, Expert Witnes

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PTR Toolkit: Leveraging food science to achieve results

Active packaging expertise

• Modified atmosphere package
• Antimicrobials

Deep knowledge of deteriorative reactions in foods

• Lipid oxidation
• Moisture and water activity loss and gain
• Browning
• Quality loss including Flavor, Aroma and Texture loss

​Predictive shelf life modeling

Bayesian modeling on innovation

Intelligent and Smart Packaging expertise

• Time- Temperature Indicators
• Time- Temperature integrators
• pH indicators
• Microbe- specific growth indicators

Package design

• Film
• Rigid packaging
• Semirigid packaging

Package production and machinery

• Primary, secondary and tertiary packaging

Consumer focus groups on packaging

​In depth understanding of the migration rates from packaging into food

Material science

• Polymers and plastics
• Glass
• Paperboard
• Metal
• Multicomponent

​Shelf life testing

• Microbial
• Oxidation
• Browning
• Flavor and Aroma loss
• Texture loss

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Food Package Optimization & Problem-Solving

​We fine-tune food packaging using material science, deep value chain, and cost-savings experience.
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​Food Packaging Expert Witness 
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Dr. Claire Sand is a food packaging expert with 35+ years in industry and 18+ cases as an Expert Witness.
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