Fishbone Packaging Inc. FAQ
What is Fishbone? - Fishbone carriers are a sustainable, marketable, easy-to-use and eco-friendly successor to secondary plastic rings and carriers that both extends and compliments your brand’s primary packaging, allowing it to take center stage. Made from a proprietary combination of recyclable materials, coatings and converting processes, these components work in unison with our unique structural design functionality and application process to create a robust carrier pack format with incredible customer appeal.
Are Fishbone carriers cost effective? - Fishbone carrier cost is on par with traditional LDPE ring carriers while adding value in marketing opportunity and consumer-use benefits to your secondary packaging. Beyond that, Fishbone carriers greatly reduce material usage and cost compared to cartons or clusters while keeping production speeds high.
Are Fishbone carriers sustainable? - Yes. We only utilize responsibly forested and manufactured, recyclable, plastic-free materials in the manufacture of Fishbone carriers. Our unique carrier composition, design and application process allows us meet these goals where others cannot.
What about Testing? - Our consortium and customers have tested Fishbone carriers to meet the demands of the supply and consumer use chain in high-speed application environments. Our product and process of application specific to Fishbone carriers ensures capable and secure product delivery.
Materials management process / Supply chain- You, the manufacturer work directly with our converting partner(s) (or approved outside converter) in ordering, payment and supply chain logistics to insure smooth materials management for your operations. We provide the specific dieline and materials specifications to our approved converter(s) whom are available to supply product globally/regionally for streamlined shipping and lead time. We can also work with additional outside vendors whom meet the specifications necessary.
Machinery / How are carriers applied? - Working together with Krones AG, Fishbone Packaging offers a variety of turn-key application machinery solutions which ensure accurate and secure attachment of the Fishbone carrier to your product at high-speed.
Business model - As Fishbone Packaging Inc. has developed the pack format solution, application process and back-end processes we operate on a licensing revenue model in-line with your current multi-pack carrier solutions.
About us - Our core team includes well over 50 years of packaging innovation, machinery design, development and product marketing working with the largest brands in the world. We’ve partnered with The world’s most trusted material suppliers, machinery manufacturers and converters to extend our value and provide product solutions for customers of all size and scale.
Are Fishbone carriers cost effective? - Fishbone carrier cost is on par with traditional LDPE ring carriers while adding value in marketing opportunity and consumer-use benefits to your secondary packaging. Beyond that, Fishbone carriers greatly reduce material usage and cost compared to cartons or clusters while keeping production speeds high.
Are Fishbone carriers sustainable? - Yes. We only utilize responsibly forested and manufactured, recyclable, plastic-free materials in the manufacture of Fishbone carriers. Our unique carrier composition, design and application process allows us meet these goals where others cannot.
What about Testing? - Our consortium and customers have tested Fishbone carriers to meet the demands of the supply and consumer use chain in high-speed application environments. Our product and process of application specific to Fishbone carriers ensures capable and secure product delivery.
Materials management process / Supply chain- You, the manufacturer work directly with our converting partner(s) (or approved outside converter) in ordering, payment and supply chain logistics to insure smooth materials management for your operations. We provide the specific dieline and materials specifications to our approved converter(s) whom are available to supply product globally/regionally for streamlined shipping and lead time. We can also work with additional outside vendors whom meet the specifications necessary.
Machinery / How are carriers applied? - Working together with Krones AG, Fishbone Packaging offers a variety of turn-key application machinery solutions which ensure accurate and secure attachment of the Fishbone carrier to your product at high-speed.
Business model - As Fishbone Packaging Inc. has developed the pack format solution, application process and back-end processes we operate on a licensing revenue model in-line with your current multi-pack carrier solutions.
About us - Our core team includes well over 50 years of packaging innovation, machinery design, development and product marketing working with the largest brands in the world. We’ve partnered with The world’s most trusted material suppliers, machinery manufacturers and converters to extend our value and provide product solutions for customers of all size and scale.
*Test data available upon request