New Zip-Pak Brazil Packaging Lab Showcases Resealable Solutions
Zip-Pak, Manteno, Ill., opened a packaging lab and showroom at its Brazil facility located in Cabreúva, São Paulo, designed to provide visiting regional brands a first-hand experience of resealable packaging solutions for a variety of flexible consumer packaging formats. The showroom is interactive by design, allowing visitors to touch and experience the functionality of a wide range of Zip-Pak resealing solutions. The packaging lab’s capabilities include prototype production, with the means to provide owners, converters and original equipment manufacturers a formed and decorated pouch complete with a resealable closure.
The resources made available through the Zip-Pak Brazil packaging lab are “uncommon to the region,” says Flavio Zampirolli, field service engineer for Zip-Pak Brazil. “Customers can send us their film, and we can quickly produce a functional prototype with branded decorating, resulting in a virtually ‘shelf-ready’ sample. Looking at a computer rendering or flat artwork just does not compare to holding a formed and decorated zippered pouch. Once customers see the zipper integrated into their packaging, the advantages of using a resealable closure become fully apparent.”