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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:
  • Strategy & Technical Consulting
  • ​Save Food Blueprint Design: A guide to gain loyal customers and save food
  • "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.

Dr Claire Sand explains what PTR does in this overview deck

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Our Approach:

 
  • 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” 
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How We Help:

  • ​Strategy & Technical Consulting
  • ​Save Food Blueprint Design: A guide to gain loyal customers and save food
  • Food ​Packaging Technology Evaluations
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​Strategy & Technical Consulting 


​STRATEGY:
​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.


Case Study: Strategic Direction
Case Study: Market Assessment
​TECHNICAL:
​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.  Here are some packaging solutions we assess, optimize, build the business case for, and implement.
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Case Study:  Food Packaging Science & Technology Coach
Case Study:  Clean Label Technology Advisor
Case Study: Science and Technology Advisor
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Save Food Blueprint Design: A guide to gain loyal customers and save food

For leading companies to meet their and UN commitments– 50% by 2030 - for reducing food waste consumer-derived food waste must be tackled.
Packaging solutions can effectively save food, meet bold commitments, and address global food justice, hunger, and GHG!
 
The key to seeing the business return on saving food is to use packaging investments to drive sales.  Our Save Food Blueprint Design identifies the where you can make the most impact, defines the best packaging technology, and then determines how to best communicate this to consumers to drive sales.  It is the optimal blend of science, consumer insights to achieve a more susstianable food system. 

Schedule a call to learn more about how PTR can design your blueprint to gain customers with packaging that saves food.
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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  
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Food Packaging Expert Witness

Experienced Food Packaging Expert Witness for cases and attorneys.

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
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Schedule a meeting today to discuss if we can bring value to your projects. 
We believe that building relationships builds our industry and our future.
If we can't help, we will connect you with someone who can.
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Call PTR - 612.807.5341

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