At Packaging Technology & Research, our technology offering is designed to allow you to get the most out of technology. We can explore the globe to find you the latest treads to impact your business, develop packaging that exceeds you expectations and provide factual analysis to support your investments in technology. 

---

​WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN WORKING WITH PTR

• Tactical solutions to decrease quality issues, increase shelf life, address sustainability, decrease packaging and food ingredient costs.
  
• Pilot plant and food processing laboratories specific to food packaging.
  
• Direction on compliance with FSMA and GFSI
  
• Management of new product packaging from inception to final production involving machinery, material, processing, to meet distribution requirements and maximize retail presence.
  
• Guidance in team meetings to move project forward rapidly.
  
• Off-line expertise to address a specific crisis – recall, food safety outbreak, out of specification packaging, packaging fraud – so R&D can focus on existing projects.
  

CASE STUDIES

• Case Study: Clean Label Technology Advisor
• Case Study: Science and Technology Advisor

ARTICLES 

• ​Modified Atmosphere Packaging Expands 
• Intelligent Packaging Advances to Meet New Needs
  
  

---

Technology Practice Areas

Exploration

• Identify opportunity in markets
• Identify what technologies are needed to succeed in the market

Development

• Build innovation pipeline
• Identify strategic partners
• Provide technical research and decision making  guidance
• Package design based on viable design parameters
• Shelf life assessment of options

Production

• Financial data to assess go/no-go decision
• Packaging machinery purchasing or modification guidance
• Scale up from laboratory to pilot plant to production

​​What clients are saying...

Sample project work

• Determined capabilities, capital, expertise, and roadblocks required and cross-category benefits for the technology in the selected categories
•  Mapped the entire technology implementation process to address roadblocks upfront and increase success
• Specified package, product, process technologies in the categories and their rationale for and direction in the category
• Integrated a newly patented packaging technology resulting in drop-in solutions with no manufacturing changes.
• Enabled numerous patent applications