INTRODUCTION

Packaging is the science, art, and technology of enclosing or protecting products for distribution, storage, sale, and use.

The product has to be in something that will keep it fresh, intact and edible.

In 1952,Michigan State University became the first university in the world to offer a degree in Packaging Engineering.

Storage, portability, identification and marketing.

It has to be packaged in a way that will be easy for the consumer to pick up and take home with them

• Early wooden

wine barrel.

• Traditional pot-

shaped basket, mexico

• Blown glass

bottle, 3rd

century CE

A pill box made

in 1936

Amphorae, Turkey

definition

The wrapping material around a consumer item

that serves to contain, identify, describe,

p protect, display, promote and

o otherwise make the product

m marketable and keep it

clean.

most common packaging material and , most difficult to dispose of.

They are light, strong cheap to manufacture.

An alternative to cardboard glass packaging materials.

Appropriate for packaging foods (canned foods).

For drinks, such as soft drinks beers, aluminium is often used.

Tin plate is a solid, heavy steel covered with tin to protect it against rust.

Aluminium is attractive, light strong at the same time, but requires a lot of raw materials energy to make it.

Brick carton

A light, strong air-tight packaging material.

Its complex composition makes it difficult to recycle.

Complex packaging material, made up of several layers of plastic, paper aluminium.

It is used mainly to keep drinks such as milk, juice, etc.

glass

An ideal material for foods, especially liquids.

It is inalterable, strong easy to recycle.

It is the traditional vessel in the home (jars, glasses, jugs, etc.).

Its weight shape may involve some difficulties for transport storage.

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