Packaging Formats
We offer customizable products that set the bar for pet care product freshness, graphic appeal, in a full range of formats — including cups and trays, flat bottom bags, pouches and more.
Cups and Trays
• Preformed cups and trays for thermally-processed shelf stable pet food
• Packaging suitable for the retort process
• Customizable barrier properties to meet your product’s needs
• Stock or customized design options for preformed cups
Flat Bottom Bag
• True flat bottom, produced from two webs
• Prevents the tired, shop-worn look of paper and enhances appeal with high-fidelity graphics
• Provides stability when the package sits upright on shelf and a premium appearance when bags are merchandised flat
• Opportunity to use clear film for the side panels, with the rest of the bag opaque (or vise versa)
• Offers consumer convenience with several reclose options such as zippers, slider, and handles
• Exhibits incredible strength and drop performance to withstand the rigors of distribution
Spouted Pouch
• Re-closeable options for consumer convenience
• Different size fitments for different functions
• Customizable barrier properties to meet your product’s needs
• Die-cut shapes and handles for shelf appeal and enhanced consumer experience
• Environmentally friendly with reduced carbon footprint
• Tamper evident for consumer safety
Stand-Up Pouch
• Custom engineered films and rollstock for form, fill, and seal applications
• Pre-made pouches and bags with a wide variety of features available (shapes, spouts, easy open, re-close, etc.)
• Structures for any application including hot-fill aseptic and retort
• Available in multiple styles, including Doyen
Rollstock
• High-impact graphics
• Print finishes include matte and gloss
• Premium clear high gloss options for retail
• Multiple structure options available
• Focused factory and customer service for ream wrap production
• Internal graphic services
Woven PP
Printpack protects your brand promise by weaving innovation into our newest pre-made bag delivering protection with a lower impact on the environment.
BENEFITS
• Maintains premium appearance and product freshness.
• Reduces product damage and spoilage by 50%.
• Provides a more sustainable packaging system than paper multiwall with 55% lower weight, 65% lower GHG emissions than paper and 69% lower than plastic laminations.
• 100% polypropylene packages are fully recyclable and increasingly recovered
FEATURES
• The most efficient flexible material structures in the industry with natural moisture barrier, high strength, and no adverse impact on food palatability
• Latest step-cut technology offers alternatives to the traditional sewn-bag closure, increasing speed and sealing efficiency
• Pinch-bottom results in an uninterrupted bottom panel for end-out merchandising
• Multiple consumer convenience features such as slider re-close and one-time easy open
HOW CAN PRINTPACK’S WOVEN POLYPROPYLENE BAGS BENEFIT YOUR BUSINESS?
• Provide economic benefits throughout
the supply chain by reducing product loss, damage,
and product returns for brand owners, retailers, and
consumers.
• Protect and enhance your product from delivery
through distribution, on the store shelf, and in the
consumer’s home.
• Offer a more sustainable packaging system through
source reduction, transportation efficiency, waste
reduction, and reuse of valuable material.
BAG SIZE RANGE
Face Width: 10.25” to 19”
Length: 19.7” to 43.5”
Gusset: 2.5” to 8”
Sustainable Packaging Film Portfolio
Meet our full Preserve™ family of sustainable pet care packaging, featuring recyclable packaging solutions as well as others made from post-consumer recycled materials and a variety of renewable sources.
Preserve™ Circular/Renewable
• Offsets virgin plastic to meet
corporate goals and regulatory requirements for virgin plastic reduction
• Lowers packaging carbon footprint
• Use of content made from recycled
plastics creates demand for plastics circularity
• Source of content include post-consumer and post-industrial plastics that are mechanically recycled
• Source of content include post-consumer and post-industrial plastics that are recycled by advanced recycling processes, such as pyrolysis (known as “Certified Circular Content”)
• Plastics made from renewable
feedstock sources such as used cooking oil (UCO) and technical corn oil (TCO) (known as “Certified Renewable Content”)
• Options available for PE, PP, and PET
• Use of Certified Circular and Certified Renewable content requires no packaging formulation changes, and there is no regulatory or food safety risk because the plastic material is chemically indiscernible from virgin plastic
Preserve™ Recyclable Fiber
• Passed Western Michigan University testing protocols for repulpability and recyclability
• Sustainable solution designed for the curbside recycling stream
• Economical packaging solution for products that do not require high moisture and oxygen barrier
• Pre-made pouches/bags
• HFFS flexible packaging
• VFFS flexible packaging
Preserve™ Recyclable PE
• Recyclable through the How2Recycle Store Drop-off program
• Meets the same food safety standard as conventional high density polyethylene
• Standard and high barrier options available
• Pre-made pouches/bags
• HFFS flexible packaging
• VFFS flexible packaging
