Custom Packaging: Creating new options to meet new needs.

Custom packaging lets a customer create a solution to suit a new product, functional specification or branding objective. TricorBraun's Design & Engineering group guides customers through the development phases, step by step, to create the right package on schedule and on budget.

Companies can approach their packaging and distribution with the power of TricorBraun's expertise. The company's extensive range of packaging services helps deliver products to consumers with exceptional efficiency. Consultants at the firm have broad expertise in precision mold engineering, international sourcing and localization, and logistics and storage solutions. That's just part of the picture, though. Many people also rely on the company's Design & Engineering group for step-by-step guidance through the custom package development process.

For more than a century, TricorBraun has been at the forefront of packaging developments, often driving innovation. The TricorBraun team prides itself on keeping abreast of the latest technical advances and understands the benefit of sharing information and collaborating with industry partners. As a member of organizations such as the Sustainable Packaging Coalition, the company gains the knowledge to contribute to the general availability of effective and sustainable rigid packaging solutions for all industries. Essentially, sustainability is the capacity to endure. In packaging, it touches on the social, ecological and economic consequences of the entire supply chain, from the extraction and processing of raw materials to design, manufacturing, distribution, use and, in turn, disposal and recycling. Sustainable packaging must also protect the product over its intended life cycle while using resources efficiently.

TricorBraun's long-term objective is to create effective packaging while reducing the product's environmental impact and ecological footprint, so that its packaging:

• Meets market criteria for both performance and cost
• Optimizes the use of renewable or recycled source materials
• Is made from materials healthy in all probable end of life scenarios
• Is effectively recovered and utilized in biological and/or industrial closed-loop cycles

TricorBraun keeps up with emerging materials and practices in order to provide greener options and help others achieve sustainability. Packaging is a process with many variables, and customers can can count on TricorBraun consultants to address every angle with an abiding passion, as their skills and initiative allow the company to add value with speed, efficiency and ingenuity.