We prevent food waste with more sustainable packaging using compelling food packaging science expertise
YOUR Best Packaging Starts Here
PTR provides food manufacturers, packaging solutions providers, and trade organizations with food science and packaging solutions. Single-minded solutions achieve little. Our science-focused solutions maximize packaging value while delivering optimized packaging for less environmental impact.
Our capabilities include:
For over 30 years, Dr. Claire Sand, a global packaging leader, has broad experience in the food science and packaging industry. Today, Sand and her PTR team derive deep solutions that address industry challenges via a Systems Thinking approach that blends value chain opportunities with food packaging, science, and processing.
Our capabilities include:
- Strategy Consulting
- Technical Consulting
- "Off the shelf" food packaging Technology Evaluations
- Serving as a Food Packaging Expert Witness
For over 30 years, Dr. Claire Sand, a global packaging leader, has broad experience in the food science and packaging industry. Today, Sand and her PTR team derive deep solutions that address industry challenges via a Systems Thinking approach that blends value chain opportunities with food packaging, science, and processing.
- PTR knows current status of innovative science- and value chain- based solutions and how they can be applied
- PTR identifies and directs the most applicable science and value chain-based solutions for specific products, brands, and categories
- PTR builds the business case to enable solutions to reduce food waste and use more sustainable packaging
- PTR implements to move solutions to move from a “Nice-to-Do” to “Done”
How We Help:
- Strategy Consulting
- Technical Consulting
- Food Packaging Technology Evaluations
Strategy Consulting
The PTR science-based Systems Thinking process ensures both a correct strategy and its strong business case.
PTR is set-up to either review, refine, or define sustainability strategies on food waste and packaging waste so they are defensible, have integrity, and enable wider value chain linkages. We are the go-to science-based strategists that provide tactical implementable strategic direction on all areas of food packaging.
PTR is set-up to either review, refine, or define sustainability strategies on food waste and packaging waste so they are defensible, have integrity, and enable wider value chain linkages. We are the go-to science-based strategists that provide tactical implementable strategic direction on all areas of food packaging.
Technical Consulting
With 30 years of experience across the food science and packaging spectrum - ranging from basic research and development to market analysis, PTR offers broad and in-depth understanding. Our expertise in blending food science, processing, and packaging with the value chain provides a 1-stop solution for technical consulting.
Food Packaging Technology Evaluations
PTR science-based Technology Evaluations (Tech Evals) are specific in-depth food packaging expertise to:
- Defend and Define a Strategy – such as a package sustainability strategy for a brand
- Jump ahead to employ the specific technology that is most viable to your product(s) or needed solution
- Select resources needed to implement the technology
- Engage with pre-screened partners for more rapid commercialization and IP
- Build up essential knowledge in food packaging
- Align technology to category, brand, product needs upon request
Food Packaging Expert Witness
Experienced Food Packaging Expert Witness for cases and attorneys.
My specialties as an expert include:
My specialties as an expert include:
- Design and Utility patent infringement
- Determination of probable cause in food packaging contamination
- Failure analysis of defective packaging
- Food-package interactions
- Food package design
- Food package research and development development
- Packaging materials technology
- Protective packaging
- Food packaging patents
- Food package testing
- Food packaging FDA regulations & GMPs
- Food packaging machinery & line operations