Jabil Packaging Solutions introduces sustainable packaging services

St. Petersburg, Florida-based Jabil Packaging Solutions (JPS), a division of Jabil Inc., has introduced a new suite of sustainable packaging services that aid packaged goods brands in designing and delivering new sustainable packaging formats into the marketplace.

“For CPGs (consumer packaged goods), there has never been a bigger challenge than the transition to a truly sustainable business model,” says Jason Paladino, JPS vice president of technology. “Managing this shift and truly achieving sustainability goals requires a new level of partnership and collaboration across the supply chain. As a custom packaging solutions provider with a rich history of transformational brand equity packaging, we are uniquely positioned to work intimately with brands to solve these challenges at speed while reducing complexity and mitigating risks.”

JPS says it sustainable packaging services accelerate new product development while reducing the risk associated with developing new sustainable packaging formats. The service offering concentrates on three areas: 

• Design for sustainability – Drive faster time to market and eco-friendly validation with a proven design innovation process.
• Sustainable packaging assessment – Iteratively assess key sustainability factors, such as carbon footprint and recyclability, in parallel with critical new product introduction requirements.
• Materials sourcing and development – Introduce holistic procurement strategies that consider price, supply chain optimization and performance.

The new suite of sustainable packaging services will enable customers in the food and beverage, home care, personal care and professional care sectors to work with a single packaging innovation leader with expertise in all areas of sustainable packaging development, the company says. By working with JPS, CPGs will be able to eliminate the need to coordinate multiple suppliers, design houses and converters, drive cycles of design iteration and carbon impact assessment from ideation to delivery and assure that new custom packaging formats leverage industry accepted sustainable design guidelines by using packaging life cycle analysis software to support achievement of corporate sustainability goals and leveraging the intelligence gained from performance testing of all commercially available sustainable materials.