Packaging Development Center

Centered On Customers
Our Packaging Development Center
(PDC) demonstrates our continuing commitment to our customers through technology and service. In close collaboration with our customers, the PDC staff is focused on creating new and improved packaging and packaging materials, finding applications for existing packaging and supporting customer use of current products.
Centered Geographically
Located in the Greater Cincinnati area, our PDC is geographically central to the majority of our U.S. customers, enhancing our ability to expedite research and results. 200 experts work together here to fulfill our mission of providing customers with superior packaging solutions.
Centered on Technology
Our PDC is the largest research development and testing facility of its kind. Using customer input, research, 3-D modeling, sophisticated performance laboratories and realistic testing environments, we address your current packaging needs and try to anticipate any future packaging needs.
Centered on Reality
For those customers concerned with barrier packaging, the PDC has every type of oxygen, moisture vapor and aroma barrier technology available. Our packaging evaluation group is a world leader in the overall technology of distribution testing and end-use evaluation. Sensor devices are used to record everything you would encounter in actual transportation conditions from temperature to drop heights.
 Centered on Ideas
 Our Packaging Development Center is also a valuable testing resource for you. Try new designs, shapes, promotional concepts and prototypes. Test new coatings, holograms, specialty inks or special attachments. If you can think it, we can make it. And with our 3-D modeling system, you can leave the PDC with working samples of your new ideas.

 Packaging Development Services

  • Packaging design and graphic arts
  • Custom shapes and sizes
  • Promotional packaging development
  • Aqueous and specialty coatings
  • Barrier coatings
  • Microbiology and food science
  • Board development
    •  Real World Simulation Capabilities
  • Conversion (sheeting, die-cutting, foil stamping, etc.) facilities
  • Pilot plant facilities
  • Laminating
  • Test kitchens
  • Co-extrusion barrier forming
  • Printing
    •  Testing and Evaluation 
  • Package distribution evaluation
  • Infrared spectroscopy
  • Gas chromatography
  • Shelf-life analysis
  • Sealing technology
  • Thermal analysis
  • Wet-chemistry analysis
  • Barrier performance evaluation
    • Centered on You
    Our goal is true customer satisfaction. We can conduct audits of your operations and packaging systems to identify opportunities for operations improvement and material cost reduction. We can take your packaging ideas and turn them into functional reality. We can take your challenges and give you creative, cost-effective packaging answers in return. Whatever you need, our Packaging Development Center is here to help with the best innovation resources in the industry.