Multi-pack
A Multi-pack is packaging that combines or holds multiple items or smaller packages.
Functions
Multi-packs can be used to:
- Combine several items for a larger unit of sale, often with a reduced individual cost
- Provide convenience to carry several items
- Help prevent package pilferage
- Provide a tamper indicating seal
- Reduce environmental impact of secondary packaging [1]
- Keep items clean[2]
- Obscure the bar codes on the individual combined items and provide a new one for the multi-pack
- etc
Beverages
Beverage cans and bottles are sold in mulit-packs such as six packs, twelve packs, and cases of 24[3]. These can be paperboard baskets, paperboard overwraps and cartons, corrugated fiberboard boxes, HDPE plastic handles, six pack rings, and shrink packs.
Other uses
A wide variety of items and packages are combined into multi-packs for sale.
Gallery
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HDPE handle used to bundle 3 plastic jars of jelly
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Injection molded 'Can Carrier' used to multipack and stack beer cans
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Shrink wrap used to form a 12-pack of cartons of tissue -
PakTech TwinKlip used to join two spray bottles
See also
References
- ^ "Leaner and Greener". Beverage World. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ^ "Third Party Testing: 6Pak Can Carriers Provide 95-98% More Protection". PakTech. 2011-07-01. Retrieved 2011-10-19.
- ^ "Interest In Multipacks Picks Up". Food & Beverage Packaging. 2011-02-01. Retrieved 2011-05-2.
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- Soroka, W, "Fundamentals of Packaging Technology", IoPP, 2002, ISBN 1-930268-25-4
- Yam, K. L., "Encyclopedia of Packaging Technology", John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN 978-0-470-08704-6
