Contract packer

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Contract packers are subcontractors who pack, repackage or add to main products on behalf of the actual manufacturers or mere raw material importers under their brand names or as trademarks . Other terms are contract packer, (contract) packer, contract packer, contract packer, contract packer, contract packer; the standard international designations Contract packer , co-packer , or co-packers are widespread. In the beverage industry is known as a co-packer fillers (→ Bottling ) or wage filler or wage (ab) filler (English: Bottler).

The co-packing is one of the logistics services . External special structures, such as those represented by highly efficient packaging systems, are used by manufacturing companies when maintaining their own structures would be less efficient or more costly ( lean production ). This outsourcing is widespread in many areas of industry today, especially in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

There are different variants and mixed forms:

  • Brand manufacturers take over copacking for others in order to better utilize and thus maintain their own packaging capacities.
  • Companies that were previously present on the market as brand manufacturers themselves specialize as contract packers for others for economic reasons, without continuing to be represented on the market with their own branded products.
  • Specialized, newly established contract packers set up their own new packaging capacities that were not previously used for manufacturing their own products.

The packaging material (packaging) is provided partly by the client, and partly by the contract packer. Sometimes the services upstream or downstream of the packaging process are also taken over by contract packers, for example packaging and picking .

The transition to contract / contract manufacturing (to contract / contract manufacturer ) is fluid (see also extended workbench ). There are companies that deliver all the raw components of their products to their contract packers, who then put everything together before the actual packaging process and only then create the actual finished product.

In some areas, contract packers are organized in franchising systems, for example in beverage bottling for Coca-Cola .

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