Pet food market players share packaging trends
Packaging World spoke with key players in the pet food market to discover current trends.
Sustainability
Most interviewees are actively working on improving the sustainability of their packaging. After making big strides with ingredients and raw materials over the years, it’s time to focus to make sure packaging doesn’t go back in the landfill.
However, that doesn’t come without challenges. Getting materials approved as recyclable, for example, remains confusing.
Finally, this shift to more sustainable materials also has implications for packaging machinery and operations. With changes in materials sometimes comes need for modifications, adjustments or replacements of equipment. “Right now there is a big push to go to all recyclable plastics, so I’m always on the lookout for any type of new equipment or programs out there to help us with these things.”
Logistics
“Packaging lead time is a big one,” one participant shared. “Both because we have a lot supply chain issues that we’re aware of and because of the difficulty of getting your raw materials, because they are overseas. I’d say supply chain and lead time are our biggest pain points.”
Source: Packaging World