You’re beating your targets for developing the science, the next round of financing is secured and the time to address your product’s packaging is happening sooner than you planned. What do you do now ?
Here’s a short list of questions our customers use as a guide as they prepare to identify and quantify performance characteristics.
1) What is your product?
While a seemingly straightforward question, it is more complex in the context of packaging. In addition to size and shape, we recommend thinking about the roles secondary and tertiary packaging may play.
2) What can happen to your product during its lifetime?
There are three primary considerations, what can happen physically, environmentally and atmospherically to impact your product. This is also where we recommend thinking about packaging from the “inside out”, i.e., how to optimize the integrity of your product.
3) How long is protection required?
Shelf life is not just life on a shelf, it begins on the date of manufacture and ends on the last date an item is safe and effective.
4) What about special features?
In addition to the hermetic seal, different products require different features, e.g., enhancing functionality, improving ease of use, security features, instructions, etc.
5) Choosing a manufacturer
These suggestions represent the collective input of our customers. Simply stated, they develop a list of tangible attributes that include:
Here’s a short list of questions our customers use as a guide as they prepare to identify and quantify performance characteristics.
1) What is your product?
While a seemingly straightforward question, it is more complex in the context of packaging. In addition to size and shape, we recommend thinking about the roles secondary and tertiary packaging may play.
2) What can happen to your product during its lifetime?
There are three primary considerations, what can happen physically, environmentally and atmospherically to impact your product. This is also where we recommend thinking about packaging from the “inside out”, i.e., how to optimize the integrity of your product.
3) How long is protection required?
Shelf life is not just life on a shelf, it begins on the date of manufacture and ends on the last date an item is safe and effective.
4) What about special features?
In addition to the hermetic seal, different products require different features, e.g., enhancing functionality, improving ease of use, security features, instructions, etc.
5) Choosing a manufacturer
These suggestions represent the collective input of our customers. Simply stated, they develop a list of tangible attributes that include:
- Type III DMF Listed materials
- Material and market knowledge
- Material and market experience
- Accreditation
- Vertical integration
Download our free report to learn the detailed answers behind the five recommended activities.
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