{"id":272,"date":"2022-08-31T16:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/?p=272"},"modified":"2023-08-12T22:56:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T20:56:18","slug":"tasks-of-a-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/aufgaben-einer-verpackung\/","title":{"rendered":"Tasks of a packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Packaging is omnipresent and causes a lot of waste - this is the widespread opinion. However, only a few people are aware of the important tasks that packaging has and the high demands that are placed on modern packaging. Basically, packaging has the following tasks:<br><br><strong>Protective function:<\/strong><br>The contents are to be protected from environmental influences, damage or contamination - on the other hand, the users are also protected from the contents (toxic, sharp-edged, corrosive, flammable, etc. contents).<br>-Different and specific requirements have an influence on which packaging (materials) offer the greatest possible protection\/benefit.<br>-packaging extends the shelf life of the food through optimal use of materials<br><br><strong>Storage function:<\/strong><br>-Stackability on standard pallets<br>-Optimised packaging dimensions<br>-Ideally the same packaging in storage and sale<br>-Adapted to storage conditions (humidity, frozen products etc.)<br><br><strong>Transport function:<\/strong><br>-Standardised packaging sizes optimise space requirements during transport<br>-protection against mechanical and climatic damage<br>-Special requirements for sea or air freight<br>-Theft protection<br>-Tracking the delivery<br><br><strong>Information and sales function:<\/strong><br>-The packaging identifies the product by type, quantity, composition, weight and price<br>-packaging design, design, sizes, application aids (doser, portioner, dropper etc.)<br>-How to use\/prepare<br>-Multilingual declaration<br>-Minimum shelf life<br>-hazard pictograms<br>-barcode, EAN codes<br>-character recognition<br>-Award<br><br>This is an incomplete extract of the requirements that packaging must fulfil.<br><br><br>Modern packaging fulfils a multitude of tasks, whereby there are always conflicting goals:<br><br>-as good protection as possible \/ as little material used as possible<br>-special design \/ standardised packaging sizes<br>-low costs \/ sustainable, high-quality materials<br>-conspicuous packaging \/ unmixed packaging facilitates recycling<br>-noble presentation \/ inexpensive production<br>-individual packaging \/ inexpensive packaging due to mass production<br>-favourable procurement \/ regional origin<br>-Low stock quantity \/ short term availability<br><br>The development and use of the optimal packaging is always a weighing and balancing of various factors. We packaging specialists will be happy to advise you on the selection of suitable packaging.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verpackungen sind allgegenw\u00e4rtig und verursachen jede Menge Abfall - dies die weit verbreitete Meinung. Doch welche [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ratgeber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/supermatic.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}