Packaging serves to contain products temporarily for handling, transport, and storage. It protects the contents and provides information on legal requirements, composition, ingredients, and storage conditions. Common packaging materials include wood, metal, glass, cartons, plastics, and paper, each with advantages like reusability, visibility, or cost effectiveness, and disadvantages such as fragility, sensitivity to moisture, or difficulty to dispose of.

1. Packaging

2. Packaging
Packaging is a container or wrapper that contains
products on a temporary basis, mainly to group units of
a product thinking about its handling, transport and
storage.

3. Material Example Advantages Disadvantages
Wood Boxes, pallets, baskets. Easy to manipulate,
accommodate and
Stow.
High costs, easy
decomposition, contaminable,
pest-sensitive, voluminous,
heavy, flammable, sensitive to
moisture.
Metal Containers, containers,
boxes metallic etc.
Easy to handle, reusable, is
a solid product.
Fragil and heavy.
Glass Bottles, jars, containers. Visibility of the content,
recyclable, easy disposal and
decomposition, hygienic,
reusable.
Fragil.
Carton Boxes. Economic, recyclable and easy
to manipulate.
Very fragile, sensitive to the
moisture and the heat, not
very solid, non-reusable.
Plastic Boxes, rigid and semi-rigid
containers.
Impermeability, reusable, large
variety.
Flammable, expensive, difficult
disposal.
Paper Bags, wrappers etc. Low costs, easy disposal,
recyclable.
Very fragile, sensitive to
moisture and to warmth.

4. Other functions of the packaging are to protect the contents, to
facilitate handling, to provide information on handling conditions, legal
requirements, composition, ingredients and storage.
Dowload the next packaging symbol guide
https://www.nefab.com/globalassets/spain/pdf/guias/gu-01-
rotulado-de-embalajes.pdf

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