Future Food and Drinks Packaging: Emerging ethical, food safe and convenient formats

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

• The packaging market
• Green packaging
• Supply chain efficiency
• Food safety packaging
• Convenience
• New materials
• Conclusions

Chapter 1 The packaging market

• Summary
• Introduction
• The packaging market
• Market value and growth by geography
• Market value and growth by packaging type
  • Plastic
  • Metal
  • Glass
  • Paper and board

Chapter 2 Green packaging

• Summary
• Introduction
• Green packaging
• Innovation and NPD
• Category analysis
• Regional analysis
• Packaging material
• Trends in green packaging
• Recyclable materials, recycled materials and re-usable packaging
  • Recyclable materials
  • Recycling glass
  • Recycling plastic
  • Recycling metal
  • Recycling cardboard, paperboard and paper
  • Innovative recycling projects
  • Recycled food and drinks packaging
  • Re-usable packaging
• Reduced/lightweight packaging
  • Packaging re-engineering
  • Switching from traditional materials to lighter alternatives
• Biopolymers
  • Biopolymers
  • Compostable and biodegradable bioplastics
  • Bioplastics and recycling
• Sustainable packaging
• The future of green packaging

Chapter 3 Supply chain efficiency

• Summary
• Introduction
• Supply chain efficiency in food and drinks packaging
• Innovation and NPD
• Category analysis
• Regional analysis
• Packaging material
• Trends in supply efficient packaging
• Shelf ready solutions
• Shelf ready packaging and regulatory issues
• Packaging that extends shelf life - aseptic packaging
  • Ultra High Temperature (UHT) aseptic packaging - cartons
  • Ultra High Temperature (UHT) aseptic packaging - cans
  • Cold filling aseptic packaging - High Density Polyethylene
  • Cold filling aseptic packaging - PET
  • Aseptic packaging - ready meals
• Radio Frequency Identification - RFID
  • RFID and regulatory issues
• The future of supply chain efficient packaging

Chapter 4 Food safety packaging

• Summary
• Introduction
• Food safety packaging categorized
• Tamper evident
  • Bubble tops and vacuum seals
  • Shrink-sleeves
  • Special membranes
  • Breakaway/tearaway closures
  • Overseals
  • Paper-based seals
• Contamination prevention
• Food safety packaging and regulatory issues
• The future of food safety packaging

Chapter 5 Convenient packaging

• Summary
• Introduction
• Convenient consumption
• Demographic shifts
• Smaller households
• Increasing numbers of women working
• Families leading more fragmented lives
• Increased income levels
• Innovation and NPD
• Category analysis
• Regional analysis
• Packaging material
• Trends in convenient packaging
• Easy handling packaging
  • Easy open packaging
  • Easy to hold
• Ergonomic design
  • Transportable packaging
  • Lunch box friendly packaging
  • ' On-the-go' meal replacement
• Convenient storage solutions
• Convenient preparation
  • Microwaveable packaging formats
  • Self-heating and self-cooling packs
  • Packaging that adds ingredients at time of consumption
• Single portions
• Regulatory issues
• The future of convenient consumption packaging

Chapter 6 New materials

• Summary
• Introduction
• What are the newest materials on the market?
• Nanocomposites and nanofilms
• Natural polymers and films
• Oxydegradable additives
• Edible coatings and films

Chapter 7 Conclusions

• Summary
• Introduction
• Market influences
• Ethical concerns
• Rising affluence
• Food safety
• Health and wellbeing
• Market opportunities
• Ethical marketing
• Convenience
• Shelf stable packaging
• Index

List of Figures

• Figure 1.1: Zwyiec Beer
• Figure 1.2: Premium metallic packaging
• Figure 1.3: Specialty can packaging; Nomu Vanilla Paste
• Figure 1.4: Share of glass packaged food and drinks products by number of containers sold, by category, UK, 2005
• Figure 2.5: Percentage share of food and drinks launched in green packaging, 2004-2007
• Figure 2.6: Percentage share of food and drinks launched in green packaging by category, 2004-2007
• Figure 2.7: Percentage share of products launched in green packaging by region, 2004-2007
• Figure 2.8: Municipal waste management in the European Union, 2003
• Figure 2.9: Jars promoted as being ' re-usable'
• Figure 2.10: Kool Aid Sachets and Teisseire Teissi La Dosette de Sirop
• Figure 2.11: Heinz lightweight can-ends
• Figure 2.12: Lightweight glass; Adnams Beer and Meidi-ya Jam
• Figure 2.13: Lightweight PET container; Otsuka Pocari Sweat
• Figure 2.14: Yellow Jersey French Wine Launched in PET Oxygen-Barrier Container
• Figure 2.15: Polylactic acid used for tea bags and pouches
• Figure 2.16: Corn Starch Bio-Bottle
• Figure 2.17: Recycled, biodegradable packaging with corn-starch ' window' Figure 2.18: Sustainable packaging
• Figure 3.19: Percentage share of food and drinks launched in supply chain efficient packaging, 2004-2007
• Figure 3.20: Percentage share of food and drinks launched in supply chain efficient packaging, by category, 2004-2007
• Figure 3.21: Percentage share of products launched in supply chain efficient packaging, by region, 2004-2007
• Figure 3.22: Easy open shelf ready packaging
• Figure 3.23: Smurfit Kappa using Microflute for Shelf Ready Packaging
• Figure 3.24: Wine boxed in aseptic packaging
• Figure 3.25: Ball packaging Slimline aseptic can
• Figure 3.26: Aseptic cold filled PET
• Figure 3.27: Vetee Dine in Rice in aseptic shelf stable trays
• Figure 4.28: Heinz Baby Food, packaged in vacuum sealed ' Pop-up' jars
• Figure 4.29: Safety Seal Plastics Inc - supplying food and drinks manufacturers with tamper evident shrink-sleeves
• Figure 4.30: Sainsbury' s use of Induction Sealing for its dairy products
• Figure 4.31: Puget Extra Virgin Olive Oil, packaging for food safety, convenience and shelf-life extension
• Figure 4.32: Examples of tearaway and breakaway tamper evident packaging.
• Figure 4.33: Paper-based tamper evident seals used for marketing purposes
• Figure 4.34: Fresh-check® - indicates when the product is past its use by date
• Figure 4.35: Roth Kase Cheese in Breathable Packaging
• Figure 4.36: Cryovac® oxygen-scavenging packaging
• Figure 5.37: Percentage share of food and drinks launched in convenient packaging, 2004-2007
• Figure 5.38: Percentage share of food and drinks launched in convenient packaging by category, 2004-2007
• Figure 5.39: Percentage share of food and drink products launched in convenient packaging by region, 2004-2007
• Figure 5.40: Easy Peal and Easy Tear Packaging
• Figure 5.41: QC Corps Easy-Open Jam Jars, Meeting Universal Design Rules
• Figure 5.42: Drinks packaging meeting Universal Design rules for packaging for the elderly and infirm
• Figure 5.43: Easy open - the innovative Zork wine closure
• Figure 5.44: Innovative portable packaging; Baroke' s Premium Australian Wine in a Can, Raisins d' Automne Tetra Pak Cartons, Hardy' s Shuttles
• Figure 5.45: Frito-Lay' s crush proof cups for potato chips
• Figure 5.46: Sunkist 100% Fresh Ready-to-Eat Fun Fruit for Kids
• Figure 5.47: Seapoint Farms' Edamame Frozen Organic Vegetables in Pouches
• Figure 5.48: Kellogg' s Good Food to Go! Cocoa Krispies Cereal Cup
• Figure 5.49: Go Appetit ' food in a bottle' and Morinaga Grapefruit Yogurt Handy Style
• Figure 5.50: Fridge Packs; DB Breweries of New Zealand Export Gold Beer, Ocean Spray' s Juice Drinks, Ozarka Natural Spring Water
• Figure 5.51: Microwaveable bowls
• Figure 5.52: Pie-Oh-My introduced using new QuiltWave™ technology
• Figure 5.53: Chef Creations Sauces using Tetra Pak Tetra Wedge Aseptic TWA mw 200 S packaging
• Figure 5.54: Jennie-O Turkey Store® Oven Ready Turkey
• Figure 5.55: Self-heating cans; Brandsource Decadent Hot Chocolate, Wolfgang Puck Gourmet Coffee
• Figure 5.56: Self-Heating Meals, La Briute Shelf-Stable/Self-Heating Meal and EverSafe Complete Meal Kits
• Figure 5.57: Self-Cooling Technology; Freddo Freddo Lemon Tea, Feldschlosschen Self-Cooling Keg
• Figure 5.58: Defense Effervescent Vitamin & Mineral Supplement Drink using FreshCan™ technology
• Figure 5.59: Kewpie Yasashii Kondate (kind menu) range and Hagoromo Papatto Rice Awase Kome Figure 6.60: Coors plastic beer bottle
• Figure 6.61: College Farm Natural Organic Candy, packaged in NatureWorks PLA

List of Tables

• Table 1.1: Global consumer packaging market value share and predicted growth, by region, 2005-2009
• Table 1.2: Gross domestic product based on purchasing-power-parity (PPP) per capita GDP Table 1.3: Sales growth by market at Rexam PLC (£m), 2005-2006
• Table 1.4: Global consumer packaging market value and predicted growth, by packaging type, 2005-2009
• Table 1.5: Shipments and per capita consumption of cans
• Table 1.6: Total glass market value by region, all players, ($bn), 2007
• Table 1.7: Share of food and drinks paper packaging market and value of paper market by region, ($bn), 2007
• Table 1.8: Quantity of carton packages in key growth markets for Tetra Pak, (bn), 2006
• Table 2.9: Percentage share of green packaged food and drinks launched, by packaging material, 2005-2007
• Table 3.10: Percentage share of supply chain efficient food and drinks launched, by packaging material, 2005-2007
• Table 5.11: Percentage share of convenient packaged food and drinks launched, by packaging material, 2005-2007