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Packaging Innovations

Date March 10, 2022

Packaging Innovation_Innovate with us

Why Innovate with Printpack?

Printpack’s innovation process helps brands recognize and resolve critical problems and capitalize on opportunities. With innovation, brands can drive progress and achieve a competitive advantage in an ever-changing market. We identify packaging solutions that elevate your brand, benefit consumers and promote sustainable practices.

Printpack develops innovative packaging solutions that deliver a distinct advantage at the shelf, strengthen brand identity in the minds of consumers and help brand owners optimize speed-to-market strategies. Packaging innovation plays a critical role in influencing the way consumers value, choose, and use products.

 

Front-End Innovation Process

From Collaborative Ideation to Scale Up

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Identify Need

Our front-end innovation starts by defining the problem for which we are solving.

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Clarify

Next, explore and research the issue to better define the goal. Using consumer insights and market data, we form actionable problems.

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Ideate

Generate potential solutions with our Launchpad Innovation Process.

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Develop

Concept refinement, prototyping, and testing.

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Implement

Concept Communication. Printpack Technical Resources. Scale up and launch

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We Are With You Every Step of the Way

Ideate: Launchpad Innovation

Printpack’s Launchpad Innovation sessions are a series of guided divergent and convergent thinking exercises to garner new ideas. Work with experts in marketing, product development and technical to combine and build on other’s ideas.

Printpack hosts in-person and virtual innovation sessions with customers to develop innovative packaging solutions that deliver a distinct advantage at the shelf, strengthen brand identity and help customers optimize speed-to-market strategies. Packaging innovation plays a critical role in influencing the way consumers value, choose, and use products.

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Level Up Your Packaging
With Our Digital Printing Capabilities

Printpack Digital capabilities are well suited for testing new concepts, new package designs, new graphics, sustainability projects, and to support consumer and market tests needed before a new product launch.

The Printpack Team is ready to help with innovation projects and ready to help concepts scale as new products move through the development pipeline. Bring concepts to life with digital while lowering risk.

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Our dedicated sustainability team is here to help you meet your goals with innovative solutions.

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A Culture of Innovation

Meet Our Innovations Team

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Kirsten Williams
Customer Success

Innovative Experience Design Manager

Kirsten facilitates customer facing innovation sessions for broad ideation. She creates original renderings and sketches to showcase new ideas.

 

Bill Barlow of the Printpack innovations Team

Bill Barlow
Market Development

Senior Market Development Manager

Bill leads commercial strategies and market development efforts for Pet Care packaging, Metalizing and Digital Printing.

 

Christina Boyd of the Printpack innovations Team

Christina Boyd
Office of Sustainability

Senior Product Stewardship Engineer

Christina is a member of the Office of Sustainability focused on films across the sustainable platforms, PCR film development, and advanced recycling. She has a passion for problem-solving and a background in developing innovative, practical solutions for manufacturing within the sustainability space across various industries.

 

Michelle Lieu of the Printpack innovations Team

Michelle Lieu
U.S. Flexibles

Director, National Accounts

Michelle leads a team of Product Development Engineers that services one of Printpack’s largest and most diverse customers. Their activities cover a product portfolio spanning seven unique markets. Michelle is passionate about applying “design thinking” principles to solve problems in new ways. She has a background in long-term innovation across multiple industries in the polymer science space and enjoys leveraging adjacent technologies to drive consumer engagement.

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