reported cost savings and increased productivity at its Ashford plant, following an overhaul of transit and display packaging for its range of Batchelors dried foods.After implementing a corrugated solution, packaging throughput has increased by 50%, while the removal of other packaging materials has enabled the business to reduce its secondary packaging costs.
The CPI also says that MillerCoors’s novel pack design made from corrugated board, incorporating a water resistant inner lining enables a cardboard take-home pack of bottled beers to become a cool box when the consumer adds ice or water.
Additionally, corrugated companies have also invested heavily in designing boxes which save on storage space and cut costs across the supply chain.
The CPI’s director of packaging affairs, Andy Barnetson, said: “Exploiting other planned technological developments, such as print on demand and the ability to personalise packaging, will, when added to existing innovations, allow corrugated to stay at the very forefront of the Packaging Industry.”
