From their first morning stretch to that last trip around the block before bed, our pets play a meaningful role in our lives. So, when it comes to feeding the four-legged members of our family, we know you want the best pet care packaging out there to maximize freshness, flavor, and nutrition.
More people than ever are opening their homes and their hearts and becoming pet parents. In fact, nearly 85 million U.S. households (67%) have at least one pet – a number that is only expected to grow in the coming years given the rise in pet ownership among millennials.
Today’s pet parents want the food they serve to be safe and of the highest quality, and they are ready to pay more for that peace of mind. To provide those consumers with the high-quality food they want to keep their furry or feathered family members happy and healthy, your products must have the best pet care packaging out there.
When you partner with Printpack, you get more than just a product. We take a holistic approach to packaging and will work closely with your team to develop a customer- and market-driven approach to your pet care packaging. That is why we designed a full range of customizable packaging to maximize your product’s freshness, flavor, and nutrition. After all, a healthy pet means a happy pet parent who will view your pet food as an important contributor to their pet’s longevity.
As a longtime leader in pet food packaging, Printpack takes pride in the fact that leading brands have turned to our innovative packaging solutions. With more than 60 years of experience, we know the consumer trends and behaviors shaping the pet food industry today. By putting those insights to work for your brand, we ensure the packaging solutions we deliver drive awareness and set your products apart – whether it is on a crowded shelf or in the increasingly busy e-commerce space.
From large-format bags to stand-up pouches for treats, preformed cups, and more, we offer a full range of customizable products that set the bar for durability, product protection, and sustainability.
We help set your brand apart on a crowded shelf and make it easy for consumers to chose your product.
When you partner with us, we will help you accelerate your speed-to-market strategy. We offer custom digital printing with our sustainable materials within our Preserve™ line.
We have the team to help build emotional connections with your customers with our innovative packaging solutions.
Printpack develops innovative pet care packaging solutions and sustainable options 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. Innovation in pet food packaging plays a critical role in influencing the way consumers value, choose, and use products.
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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
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”
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.
• 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
• 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
• 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
We believe that the use of sustainable material for packaging is the future. Today’s pet parents want to do the right thing when it comes to taking care of the planet. In fact, 75% of millennials would gladly change their purchasing habits if it meant reducing their impact on the environment.
That is why we developed our Preserve™ family of sustainable pet care packaging, featuring recyclable and compostable packaging solutions as well as others made from post-consumer recycled materials and a variety of renewable sources. Printpack’s Preserve™ packaging will help reduce your brand’s carbon footprint, water consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions — bringing you one large leap forward in reaching your sustainability goals.
Our Sustainability InitiativesPrintpack leads the packaging industry in manufacturing capabilities while delivering a best-in-class customer experience. We are committed to Preserving and Enhancing People’s Lives through sustainability, efficient processes, and providing quality products to our customers and consumers.
Our vertically integrated manufacturing approach includes flexographic, rotogravure, and digital printing, along with extrusion and adhesive lamination capabilities.
Our specialty rigid packaging includes barrier co-extrusion and thermoforming capabilities.
Our healthcare packaging includes header bags, peelable pouches, and forming films that protect the integrity of medical devices and equipment.
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