Each type of business has its own specific packaging concerns.
For pottery and glassware businesses, for example, breakages are no doubt a key issue. For environmentally-conscious brands, it’s finding the most eco-friendly packaging solutions. And for food-related companies, it’s perishability.
From ice-creams to gift hampers, no food-related business wants their beautiful products turning up all melted or sodden or damaged. This article focuses on food packaging, and how you can optimise your packaging and shipping processes through cold chain food packaging.
What is cold chain packaging?
Put simply, cold chain packaging is any packaging used to regulate temperature in a shipment. These temperature-controlled packaging supplies include ice gel packs, insulated bubble wraps and mailers, and esky coolers.
Many food and beverage products benefit greatly from cold chain packaging. This is because cold chain packaging can help foods retain their freshness and flavour for a long time in transit, especially fresh fruit, meat, ice cream, and wine.
The pharmaceutical industry also uses cold chain packaging, as medical products such as insulin and vaccines can deteriorate if not kept at the right temperature. Insulated packaging helps ensure these arrive in the correct condition.
4 Great Cold Chain Food Packaging Solutions
Any food related business should strongly consider these amazing cold chain food packaging solutions:
Ice Gel Packs
For a massive upgrade to dry ice, try Cold Gel Packs. Their innovative cold storage material technology performs significantly better, staying cold for hours without forming annoying puddles of water, ideal for highly perishable and fragile food items.
Signet’s Own Australian-made Cold Gel Packs last 5 times longer than crushed ice, comply with "use in air transportation" requirements, come with optional bubble back for added protection, and are reusable, non-toxic and non-caustic, making them an eco-friendly food packaging option compared to similar products.
Pat and Stick’s Homemade Ice Cream uses our Ice Packs to stabilise their in-the-box temperatures and ensure food safety. The dry ice they originally used kept dissolving, causing uncertainty and quality concerns. By switching to Signet’s Ice Gel Packs, they found a durable temperature control solution, and doubled their transit cool time over the dry ice.
Foil Insulated Bubble Wrap
Foil Insulated Bubble Wrap is, as the name suggests, a lightweight thermal insulating material that protects temperature sensitive items by maintaining temperature. Our Insulated Bubble Wrap does just that. It’s also perforated every 750mm and supplied in a convenient dispenser carton for ease of use.
Our insulated bubble wrap is the chosen solution for numerous Aussie businesses, such as premium chocolatiers Chocolab, who turned to our consistent, effective protective cold chain packaging to ship their delicate, fragile chocolates.
Switching to our Foil Insulated Bubble Wrap, as well as our Insulated Mailers, ice packs and other cold chain favourites helped them achieve an 80% reduction in melts and a major reduction in breakages.
Cool Cartons
Cool cartons are simply an insulated foil liner and a carton in one convenient unit. They provide excellent insulation via the foil lined 3mm EPE foam, and have been tested for cold temperature retention.
Our cool cartons work incredibly well in tandem with our cold gel packs for cold food transportation of all varieties.
Foil Insulated Mailers
Maintain the internal temperature of your food products for longer during shipping with durable and lightweight foil insulated shipping mailers.
Our Signet’s Own foil insulated mailer bags provide valuable temperature control for sensitive items. They’re also tamper-evident, feature an easy-to-use self-seal closure, and are available in a variety of sizes.
By using Signet’s insulated mailer bags in combination with our cold gel packs, QLD boutique chocolatier Little Cocoa saves 50% on weekly packaging costs over their previous polystyrene method, while guaranteeing consistent temperature control.
Signet is proud to support Little Cocoa, Chocolab, Pat and Stick’s and over 60,000 Aussie ventures with their cold chain packaging and everything they need to wrap, pack and ship their goods effectively.
If you’d like to speak with a Signet staff member about Cold Chain Packaging, contact our Sales Team on 13 7446, email sales@signet.net.au, or Live Chat with us by visiting www.signet.net.au.
