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Toppan is a global leader provider in the security, packaging materials, and electronics sectors.
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The Japanese company has announced a new food packaging system called Green Flat, which addresses the need to reduce plastic packaging and can be used as an alternative to conventional skin packs.
Skin packs are becoming widely used in Europe, North America, and Asia because their complete sealing helps to maintain the freshness of food and extend shelf lives due to the reduction of drip from food during storage.
Green Flat replaces the polystyrene or plastic tray often used in skin packs with a paper-based material incorporating Toppan’s proprietary GL FILM. This provides freshness retention and lowers environmental impact by reducing the use of plastic without sacrificing functionality. The tray can be made using paper from certified forests and, because it is flat, can also be used as a chopping board for preparing food. In combination with the barrier film applied over the product, lamination of the tray with GL FILM, (Toppan’s original transparent barrier film), means that food is protected from oxygen, moisture, and other external impacts, Thus further enhancing content preservation.
Green Flat is also available in a non-barrier type ideal for such items as cosmetics and toiletries. Green Flat also offers advantages in terms of attractive package design and eye-catching displays in stores.
High-quality printing is possible on both surfaces of the tray and the prevention of drip made possible by the tight seal means that even packages for fresh foods can be stood up or suspended from hooks for display. QR code can also be printed onto the tray to enhance customer engagement by providing information or running online or online/offline hybrid promotions.
The Green Flat system offered by Toppan will consist of the Green Flat tray, a skin pack filling system, skin pack film, and a consulting service for system implementation.
Full-scale sales are scheduled to begin in December. Comprehensive consulting services will be offered to enable customers to create appealing designs, implement effective promotions, and make the most of shop space.
A Toppan spokesperson told SPN, “Today there is strong demand for packaging that maintains freshness but also reduces environmental impact by addressing such issues as marine plastic pollution and food waste,” said Shingo Wada, general manager of business strategy in Toppan’s western Japan division. 8 “Toppan strives to meet this demand by leveraging extensive experience in paperbased packaging and developing a range of products incorporating its advanced GL Barrier technology”.
“As a new addition to our line-up, Green Flat provides outstanding freshness preservation, better environmental performance, and exciting possibilities for package designs and displays that create an impact in stores.”
For more information, visit https://www.toppan.com/en/ or follow Toppan on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/toppanprinting/
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This new report analyses the product demands of the anti-counterfeit packaging market by technology print that includes inks, dyes & markers, holograms, bar & QR codes, tags & labels that include RFID, NFC, biological/DNA, watermarks, and taggants. Moreover, the market is segmented on the basis of features such as tamper evidence, forensic techniques, track & trace, overt and covert. The anti-counterfeit packaging market report also analyses the major geographic regions as well as in these regions
Anti-Counterfeit Packaging Market Growth Drivers:
• Rising Health Risks Due to Low-Quality Products in the F&B Industry • The Pharmaceutical Sector Supporting the Anti-counterfeit Packaging Market • The Shady Business of Counterfeit Beauty Products
Anti-Counterfeit Packaging Market Challenges
Counterfeiting products and packaging are predominantly rampant in developing economies. While it is creating growth prospects for the vendors in the anti-counterfeit packaging market, some brands are yet to inculcate the practice. However, the future foresees more awareness about the counterfeit products, and the global market will observe more brands giving importance to brand protection, thereby aiding to anti-counterfeit packaging market revenue.
Anti-counterfeit Packaging Research Scope
The base year of the study is 2020, with forecasts up to 2025. The study presents a thorough analysis of the competitive landscape, taking into account the market shares of the leading companies. It also provides information on unit shipments. These provide the key market participants with the necessary business intelligence and help them understand the future of the anticounterfeit packaging market. The assessment includes forecasts, an overview of the competitive structure, the market shares of the competitors, as well as market trends, market demands, market drivers, market challenges, and product analysis.
The market drivers and restraints have been assessed to fathom their impact over the
8forecast period. This report further identifies the key opportunities for growth while also detailing the key challenges and possible threats. The key areas of focus include the specific applications of anti-counterfeit packaging in food & beverages, medical device & pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, industrial and automotive. In addition it examines the following sectors: clothing & accessories, sports & beauty products, banks, insurance and financial institutions, government & educational institutions, and cosmetics & personal care.
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“In terms of speed, quality and consistency, our research at Esko shows that at the very start of a project, during the job onboarding process, is where the most time and energy is wasted,” said Jan De Roeck, Marketing Director, Industry Relations & Strategy at Esko, a global supplier of integrated hardware and software solutions for leading print and packaging professionals.
“Workflow automation in this area, and especially with the integration of automated data exchange between Management Information Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning systems and the prepress workflow, are the areas with the biggest potential for improvement.
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“From accepting an order, all the way through to shipping finished products to the customer, 12 when looking at the entire workflow, our Value Stream Mapping projects at many converters show us that most automation opportunities lie upstream, not downstream in the production process where many companies focus.”
Automation Engine from Esko is a workflow solution that not only automates print production tasks, but also has a toolkit to enable seamless integration with existing business infrastructures. While this significantly speeds up the workflow process, it also reduces error rates and the need for operator intervention.
“Efficiency is the biggest benefit of a standardized workflow; standardization being a necessary element of any successful automation,” said Jan. “Nowadays, influenced by evolving consumer trends and brand and retailing competitive intensity, the number of product variations required has expanded significantly escalating print production complexity and reducing run lengths.
“Digital printing has developed to support this trend, enabling the production of short run unique SKUs, and when coupled with a ‘just in time’ manufacturing mentality, the scope of the challenge becomes clear. Today’s printer must come up with the most efficient way to reproduce many designs, but often in low quantities, while maintaining overall efficiency.”
Jan said digitization, automation and improved connectivity all enable converters to do more with less. “That’s why we developed the Esko Digital Maturity Model for Packaging Suppliers,” he said. “It provides inspiration and vision - and most importantly a formal strategy - for businesses to solve some of their issues, which have been further highlighted by the current global crisis, and to attract the associated benefits of reaching higher stages of digital maturity.
The model supports packaging and print suppliers (www.esko.com/en/lp/digitaltransformation/packaging-maturity-model) to identify the current stage of digital maturity their business inhabits, and more importantly guides and inspires them to move to higher stages.
8As the industry transitions into whatever economic environment our ‘new normal’ will reveal itself to be, making strategically astute, step wise decisions on the journey towards digital maturity is going to be vital for every business. Digital transformation leads to excellence in business performance by improving operational processes, lowering costs and delivering client loyalty – all of which are more vital than ever right now.
