How to pick a packaging partner with the right experience and resources

When considering your sustainable packaging partner, it is important to research the capabilities and in-house resources of the company you will be working with. To see a product through from concept to shelf, you will require not only scientific excellence but also strategic commercial industry insights to deliver materials at scale.??

Xampla has compiled a final round of guide questions to help identify the skills and resources needed when working with any expert team you will be working with.

·??????Is there team experience and resources available to truly understand your development processes and supply chains, to work with you from concept to launch?

For a material to be rolled out at scale across your product line, you will require industry experience within the team to understand the reality of your production processes and consumer demand.

Look for teams with wide-reaching experience from across the industry to bring together innovation with commercialisation. This will ensure that they understand the required processes to bring a material to market, from stability trials to consumer testing.?

·??????Is there in-house expertise to resolve unforeseen challenges, and conduct testing and analysis?

While some smaller teams are producing exciting new solutions, a lot of the testing and analysis must be outsourced to third parties, which can incur higher costs and lead times. The more in-house capability your partner can offer to customers, the quicker and more affordable your development work will be.

It is well worth investigating how your partner of choice would react to these challenges and how quickly they can conduct testing and analysis to ensure timelines do not shift.