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Eco-Punnet is the latest innovation in banana packaging—a productspecifi c packaging solution, created by Pacifi c Coast Eco Bananas (PCEB), an Australian-owned family business run by Frank and Dianne Sciacca, and Amcor.
The packaging represents PCEB’s new style of banana—identifi able by its colorful wax tip—that tastes better, looks better and is grown with a lot less fertilizers and chemicals. These banana punnets or baskets needed to be as environmentally-friendly as the fruit, as well as to have strong visual appeal.
Eco-Punnet complies with retailers’ guidelines on desired banana sizes and non-clustered fruit. The patented Eco-Punnet is a family of packaging solutions that facilitates the packing of four or six individual premium bananas. The Eco-Punnet is made from recycled materials and is 100-percent recyclable. It offers enhanced ripening, greater protection and presents to the consumer as an attractive and informative retail pack. The construction eliminates the need for plastic inserts and wraps, as well as waxed corrugated shippers, benefi ting both the environment and cost effi ciencies.
It accommodates bananas of varying size, features a spring mechanism to hold the fruit in place, has suffi cient strength to dramatically reduce the outer transport packaging and provides the marketing platform to promote Eco-Bananas point of difference to consumers. When the project began it was not certain that single banana packing could be mechanized so completion of this project represents signifi cant innovation.
Our thanks to our sister publication FOOD Magazine for this piece.
The packaging represents PCEB’s new style of banana—identifi able by its colorful wax tip—that tastes better, looks better and is grown with a lot less fertilizers and chemicals. These banana punnets or baskets needed to be as environmentally-friendly as the fruit, as well as to have strong visual appeal.
Eco-Punnet complies with retailers’ guidelines on desired banana sizes and non-clustered fruit. The patented Eco-Punnet is a family of packaging solutions that facilitates the packing of four or six individual premium bananas. The Eco-Punnet is made from recycled materials and is 100-percent recyclable. It offers enhanced ripening, greater protection and presents to the consumer as an attractive and informative retail pack. The construction eliminates the need for plastic inserts and wraps, as well as waxed corrugated shippers, benefi ting both the environment and cost effi ciencies.
It accommodates bananas of varying size, features a spring mechanism to hold the fruit in place, has suffi cient strength to dramatically reduce the outer transport packaging and provides the marketing platform to promote Eco-Bananas point of difference to consumers. When the project began it was not certain that single banana packing could be mechanized so completion of this project represents signifi cant innovation.
Our thanks to our sister publication FOOD Magazine for this piece.
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