Favourite Packaging

Australian flexible packaging specialists, Favourite Packaging, innovate the next generation of packaging and put emphasis on clients, customers, and the market. Food & Beverage Industry News reports.

Recently Food & Beverage Industry News caught up with Justin Yates, managing director at Australia's Favourite Packaging who has been supplying flexible and industrial packaging since the mid-1980s.

Their specialities include flexible packaging for foods, perishables, coffee, powders, baked products, bread, liquids and pallet wrap.

Their products include full-colour printed pouches, printed re-wind, bread bags, oven bags and the thinner plus the lighter Nano stretch pallet wrap.

Favourite Packaging can supply all of these in either traditional or new high barrier recyclable materials. But their products are just the beginning of their strong points.

Favourite Packaging work on the premise that packaging not only must efficiently contain and preserve contents but must also project the brand and play a part in selling the content "off the shelf and into the trolley".

A few years ago, Favourite Packaging joined the Australian Packaging Covenant (APCO) which means Favourite Packaging is at the forefront of appreciating what's required to meet the 2025 national packaging targets, the significant influence consumers have on ethical packaging and what viable options in materials are available.

Accordingly, Favourite Packaging has already researched and now provides high-barrier recyclable options in their printed rewind, pouches, and stretch wrap.

Favourite Packaging is their well-refined supply chain management, including sources, scheduling, transport, inventory, and delivery.

Over the years Favourite Packaging has established strong supply lines with some of the most innovative and reliable providers of raw materials and semi-finished products, and Favourite Packaging's office, staff and logistics operations are based in Beresfield, an ideal location to service Australia.

Over many years, they have made logistics, warehousing, and delivery management a speciality and hence, each customer benefits by having access to innovative materials, competitive pricing, warehouse efficiencies and reliable delivery.

Favourite Packaging is dedicated to customising flexible packaging solutions for their clients. This includes knowing their market, cooperating to optimise the materials, printing, types of packaging and supply schedules and, staying close to customers so adjustments, changes and innovations can be crafted.

Circling back to their product range, printed pouches have become more and more popular for a wide variety of foods, perishables, coffee, powders, liquids, bread and baked products, and Favourite Packaging cooperates with its clients and provides many types of pouches such as stand-up, side gusseted, quad seal, box, or flat bottom, flat or pillow.

Closures include heat seal tear notch, press seal, slider zipper seal, one-way valves, rippa-zippa seal.

For the high volume, high frequency production runs, Favourite Packaging provide printed rewind. Benefits come from economies of scale, transport, store, and inventory costs.

They supply printed rewind film for cakes, muffins, sausage rolls, pies, chips, nuts, confectionary, dried fruit, pasta, and similar products that are individually wrapped or packaged in quantities. Their printed rewind film rolls are supplied in laminations of LDPE, HDPE, PET, BOPP & CPP for flow wrapped or Vertical Form Fill.

Specifically for bread and baked products, Favourite Packaging supply specialised pre-formed bread bags, including wicketed bread bags as well as micro perforated oven or micro-wave friendly packaging.

The pouches, bags and rewind have the option to come in high barrier recyclable material. This material provides the right protection to preserve shelf life, meets the criteria for recyclable flexible packaging while contributing to improving your brand image.

Consumers can discard the packaging through recycling processes, thus contributing to the circular economy.

Most printing is full colour utilising customer's brands, design and artwork and is done through the Gravure method, as this is optimised for large runs. Favourite Packaging also do digital printing, which allows for short runs, ideal for trials, smaller orders or quick turnarounds.

Their Nano33 Stretch Wrap is much thinner yet stronger, more flexible and more durable and hence provides better load control and is more cost efficient and helps customers attain ethical and social outcomes.

The Nano33 stretch wrap comes in 100 per cent recyclable material and is also available in 30 per cent recycled material. If you are using 100 tonnes of plastic wrap on pallets each year, then you can get an easy 30 per cent reduction on that material with Favourite Packaging's Nano33.

To learn more about Favourite Packaging's flexible packaging solutions visit their website: http://www.favouritepackaging.com.au.