PopPack and PPi Technologies Group develop next generation flexible packaging that is sustainable with superior functionality and consumer appeal

PPi Technologies Group, a world leader in flexible packaging, launches a cooperation agreement in with PopPack LLC, offering the “Air-Powered Package™” design technologies to easily open flexible packages. The innovation, EasyPop®, is based on a simple concept: using an air bubble which functions as a lever to easily open packages when the bubble is popped.

PPi Technologies Group will be customizing PopPack’s EasyPop® feature to make commercial prototypes at their packaging incubator facilities in the United States. Multinational brand owners have expressed interest in applying the technology developed by PopPack. PPi Technologies Group has the technical expertise, know-how and capacity to produce customized packaging solutions for its customers and to complete the required R&D to make packaging prototypes. PPi Technologies Group will implement production development and machinery modifications required for commercial production and scalability, incorporating the EasyPop® feature into flexible packages. “The Air-Powered Package is a next generation package feature, designed with a consumer first approach. It has impressive functionality with built-in consumer convenience for producing easyto- open packages. PopPack’s technologies will broaden packaging solutions offered by PPi Technologies Group with alternatives for consumer convenient packaging with greater production efficiencies. We look forward to working with our new and existing customers to implement the novel Easy Pop® packaging features for commercial production,” says R. Charles Murray, CEO of PPi Technologies Group. PopPack’s solution is suitable for consumer products packaged on vertical or horizontal form, fill, and seal machines, and thermoformers. The packages are easy to open and can be combined with reclosing and self-closing features eliminating the need for scissors, knives, teeth or tear strips or caps to open flexible packages. PopPack’s EasyPop® design technologies apply to solids, liquids, and powders for food and non-food products. PopPack’s EasyPop® design technologies produce a distinct and appealing “popping” sound which instantly engages the consumer and provides assurance of freshness, tamper-evidence, and product safety. The package design offers improvements for flexible packages to reduce pathogens and contamination of the product. Packages can be opened with only one hand, making this design feature ideal for on-the-go consumers. EasyPop® is appropriate for snacks, foods, condiments and beverages, as well as for packaging personal care and healthcare products, cosmetics, lotions, consumer goods and convenience products. The EasyPop® design-tech meets sustainability goals. PopPack received the Packaging Innovation Award for Creative Technology at Japan Pack and the Packbridge Easy Open Award in Sweden for its novel “bubble in the seal” easy-to-open packaging innovations. PopPack holds over 150 patents issued and pending, with accompanying trademarks related to its innovation of the “Air-Powered Package”. Patents and trademarks are issued in the Americas, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Oceana.