What is Co-packing

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Co-packing or contract packing - these terms were included in the market's services sector quite recently and have become the symbol of very useful, profitable, and therefore popular practice of transferring of functions of packaging to the contractors.

That means that the customer enters into a contract on packaging of products with a professional packer on the side, which carries the packaging process on his own. You may experience a co-packing in jebel ali free zone with Triburg company.

Typically, the customer may be a manufacturer, distributor, exporter, logistic company, transporter, wholesaler or retailer, and the retailer of a contract packaging - specialized packaging company, which is an expert in its field and offers customers all the conditions necessary for the co-packing:

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  • Modern packing equipment (automatic and semi-automatic).
  • Technical staff for setting up the equipment, staff and workers trained for manual packaging and product picking.
  • Own production and distribution facilities, provision for sanitary standards and hygiene
  • Efficient technologies and techniques in the field of packaging a wide variety of goods.
  • Marketing skills, understanding of the market and experience in providing the right solutions for packaging.
  • Well-established scheme of work and an optimized control system of all the processes of co-packing.
  • As an individual service, co-packing takes into account all the individual requirements of the client, adapting to the characteristics of its products, the aim of packaging, quality and timing of the work.

In any case, cooperation with contract packer provides a number of benefits for customers and is more cost efficient than packing with their own efforts.

Benefits of Co-packing

First, the customer of co-packing has no need in the creating, maintaining and keeping his own database of sophisticated technologies, practicing new production, service and organizational decisions, hire staff and pay for its work, i.e., constantly spend time and money on resources, the use of which is not always cost efficient (due to the periods of inaction, decreasing or increasing of the activity range due to the seasonality of products and changes in the product range, etc.).

Second, professional packaging services of co-packing gives the customer not only the unlimited access to the necessary technical base, but also allow them to make effective decisions in the field of development and manufacture of individual packaging, capable to represent goods in its best way and compete with similar products on the market.

Third, co-packing allows introducing products on the market in the most maneuvering way, choosing the appropriate time and method, applying for co-packing services when it is necessary or convenient. In particular, wholesale purchased goods may lie in warehouses without retail packaging (bulk, in bags or in shipping corrugated boxes) and be packed into individual containers in lots as required or completely to a certain point. Moreover it is possible to order the one-of-a-kind packing or the formation of sets of goods, holiday, advertising or universal container.

As a result, contract packaging allows manufacturing and trading business representatives and intermediaries (who cannot or do not wish to provide the necessary packaging of their own) to effectively prepare the product for marketing, storage and transportation. So they can focus on their professional work, without wasting time and effort on the organization of the packing process. And this is the main task of co-packing.