Thin, Light, and Flexible: Optimizing Food Packaging

How about that? The trends in food packaging are continuing: Traditional rigid structures such as glass bottles and jars and metal cans are enjoying virtually no growth, and their mainstream users are shifting toward semi-rigid plastic, which is lighter weight and less expensive and has lower energy requirements in manufacturing and distribution and functionalities matched to protection and distribution needs. And, of course, as only those of us in packaging realize, it requires less use of petr…