Packaging Strategies and Solution Services

A variety of specialized packaging services are offered that revolve around your company's individual needs. Below are a few examples:


Packaging Development Process

It is a well-known fact that packaging sells products and in many cases new packaging is the main source of additional SKUs for many corporations. There are often more failures than successes. Packaging Strategies & Solutions uses a proven practical three stage approach to develop and launch successful new packaging. The basis of this three stage process consists of: Concept Development, Industrialization, and Implementation. We can provide experienced project leadership and technical support throughout this process.


Concept Development

  • User centered design development
  • Design Inputs which at a minimum includes:
  • Product requirements
  • Regulatory and Legal constraints
  • Regulatory and Legal constraints
  • Consumer wants/needs
  • Marketing and Customer wants/needs
  • Supply Chain constraints
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  • Ideation based on the Design Inputs
  • Prototypes and mock ups (3D, samples, sketches, etc.)
  • Consumer and/or Customer input
  • Preliminary Cost Of Goods development

    • Industrialization

  • Prototypes for testing (developmental drawings/specs followed by molds, dies, tooling, etc.)
  • Documentation clearance
  • Optimize Cost of Goods
  • Intellectual Property evaluation
  • California Slack Fill evaluation
  • Testing and documentation
  • Distribution challenge screening
  • Barrier testing
  • Stability testing
  • Environmental testing
  • Seal or adhesion testing
  • Child Resistance or Senior Adult Use Effectiveness
  • USP, FDA, or other customized testing as needed
  • Establish production line readiness
  • Line trials


    • Implementation

  • Finalize Cost of Goods
  • Regulatory filings if needed
  • Legal filings if needed
  • Final testing/qualifications with documentation
  • Final package component qualifications, pallet patterns, specifications, drawings, etc.
  • Start up support
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    Project Management


    Representing any party in the packaging process, Packaging Strategies & Solutions can successfully manage the activities needed to take your optimized package from an idea to commercial reality.

    Process Development

  • Innovation
  • Stagegate
  • Post Mortem
  • Cost Optimization
  • Specification Management
  • Regulatory Testing/Documentation Management
  • Sustainability Strategy
  • Performance Requirements/Testing

    • Project Leadership

  • New Product/Package
  • Source Reduction
  • Outage Planning
  • Standardization (size, materials, etc.)
  • Comprehensive testing (Child Resistance, Senior Adult Use Effectiveness, Sensory, USP and FDA required testing/certification, etc.)
  • Market and Technology Survey
  • Consumer Testing
  • Prototype Development
  • Intellectual Property Evaluation
  • Troubleshooting
  • Sustainability Audits
  • Line Trial and Start Up Support
  • Supplier and Co-Packer Audits and Support

    • Packaging Expertise



    Pharmaceutical Packaging

    (solid oral dosages, devices, liquids, creams, powders, injectables-secondary, etc.)

  • Bottles (Glass, HDPE, PP, LDPE, PET)
  • Closures (CR, Non-CR, Plastic, Metal)
  • Labels and Extended Content Labels
  • Blisters, multilayer materials
  • Cartons (including trays, etc. for devices)
  • Stretch cards, blister cards
  • Corrugated
  • Thermoforms (outer secondary packaging as well as support trays, etc.)
  • Tubes
  • Literature (Rx and retail)
  • Sustainable materials
  • Trial, hospital/pharmacy, retail, and club packaging
  • Solid oral, liquid, cream, powder dosage forms




    • Nutritional Product Packaging

    (liquid, powder, solid oral dose)

  • Dispensing devices (cups, dispensing syringes, droppers, etc.)
  • Metal cans
  • Composite fiber cans with reclosable lid
  • Flexibles: form, fill seal packets and over-wraps. Laminations, co-extrusions, mono-layer, etc.
  • Pallet Stretch wrap and variety of slip sheets
  • Many of the pharmaceutical packaging component technologies listed above




    • Food Product Packaging

    (bakery - fresh/frozen/refrigerated, cereals, cookies, crackers, meats, dough)

  • LDPE premade bakery bags (along with twist ties, kwik loks, etc.).
  • Flexible over-wraps (including metallized polyester and laminates). Printed and unprinted
  • Reclose technology (zippers, sliders, tapes, etc.)
  • Modified Atmosphere (MAP) packaging (flexible, rigid)
  • Cartons
  • Corrugated
  • Composite fiber canister
  • Dual ovenable containers, trays, and lidding
  • Printed and unprinted foil containers




    • Pet Food Packaging

    (dry, wet, soft moist)

  • Multiwall bags
  • Flexible over-wraps (including metallized polyester and laminates). Printed and unprinted
  • Flexible form fill seal pouches
  • Cartons
  • Corrugated
  • Molded containers
  • Composite fiber canister
  • Dual ovenable containers, trays, and lidding
  • Printed and unprinted foil containers