November 11, 2020

PPi Technologies Group has formed a cooperation agreement with PopPack that aims to develop next generation flexible packaging that is sustainable with added functionality and consumer appeal.

The ‘Air-Powered Package^®’ design technologies utilise PopPack’s EasyPop feature, which uses an air bubble that functions as a lever to easily open a pack.

PPi Technologies will customise EasyPop to make commercial prototypes at its packaging incubator facilities in the US. The company will also implement production development and the machinery modifications required for commercial production and scalability.

“The Air-Powered Package^® is a next generation package feature, designed with a consumer first approach,” said R Charles Murray, chief executive of PPi Technologies. “It has impressive functionality with built-in consumer convenience for producing easy-to-open packages. PopPack’s technologies will broaden packaging solutions offered by PPi Technologies with alternatives for consumer convenient packaging with greater production efficiencies.”

PopPack’s flexible packaging solution is suitable for consumer products packaged on vertical or horizontal form, fill, and seal machines, and thermoformers. The packages can be combined with reclosing and self-closing features eliminating the need for scissors, knives, teeth or tear strips or caps to open flexible packages. PopPack’s EasyPop design technologies apply to solids, liquids, and powders for food and non-food products.

EasyPop produces a distinct ‘popping’ sound to provide assurance of freshness, tamper-evidence, and product safety. Packages can be opened with only one hand, making this design feature suitable for on-the-go consumers.

PopPack received the Packaging Innovation Award for Creative Technology at Japan Pack and the Packbridge Easy Open Award in Sweden for its ‘bubble in the seal’ easy-to-open packaging innovations. Patents and trademarks are issued in the Americas, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Oceana.