Materials consultancy
Packaging that gives the shelf back
Most replacements for single-use plastic fail somewhere between the lab and the loading bay. We find out where, before you commit a line to it.
- 38
- Material substitutions taken to production since 2019
- 11
- Supply chains mapped end to end
- 4.2kt
- Virgin plastic designed out of client packaging
- 0
- Material suppliers we take commission from
How we work
Three questions, answered in order
Will it survive the journey?
Drop, compression, humidity and cold-chain testing against your actual route — not a standard pallet on a standard day.
Can anyone actually supply it?
We map who makes the material at your volume, what their lead times really are, and what happens when one of them stops.
What breaks on the line?
Most failures are mechanical, not material. We run trials on your filling line before the purchase order, not after.
We are independent, and it costs us money
We take no commission from material suppliers and hold no exclusive agreements. It means we occasionally tell a client their current packaging is fine and they should spend the budget elsewhere — which has ended two engagements early and won us four.
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Materials
"Compostable" is not a material
It describes an end-of-life route that depends on infrastructure most of your customers do not have. Here is what to ask instead.
Testing
The drop test lies, and everyone knows it
Standard transit tests model a journey nobody takes. What we do instead, and why it costs less than it sounds.
Practice
We told a client to do nothing
Their packaging was already the lowest-impact option available. The interesting part is why nobody had told them.
Bring us the packaging you are worried about
A first conversation is an hour and costs nothing.
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