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packaging as unique as what you put inside

Developing a new food product? Lacerta creates custom thermoformed packaging designed to protect freshness, maximize shelf appeal, and support your sustainability goals. With design, prototyping, tooling, and manufacturing under one roof, we keep costs competitive and can commercialize in as little as 16 to 20 weeks.

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Developing a new food product? Lacerta creates custom thermoformed packaging designed to protect freshness, maximize shelf appeal, and support your sustainability goals. With design, prototyping, tooling, and manufacturing under one roof, we keep costs competitive and can commercialize in as little as 16 to 20 weeks.

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Go Custom: From Concept to Commercialization

Packaging has to work on the shelf, protect the food, perform on the filling line, and withstand distribution. Lacerta combines food packaging expertise with an integrated development process to help you solve those challenges and move from an initial idea toward production with confidence.

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Move to Market Faster

We understand how fast new product development moves. Our in-house team of packaging experts utilizes our decades of experience to deliver initial concepts in approximately one week and prototypes in two to three weeks.

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Lower Your Launch Risk

Launching a new product always involves uncertainty. By handling the entire packaging manufacturing process in-house, we help our customers reduce the investment required to bring custom ideas to life, including a low cost of entry for custom tooling. That gives you more flexibility to pursue new products, respond to market opportunities, and invest with confidence.

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Simplify Your Packaging Operations

Custom packaging can become complicated when design, prototyping, tooling, and manufacturing are spread across multiple suppliers. Lacerta brings those capabilities together, giving you one team to work with throughout development. Fewer handoffs help preserve important details, simplify communication, and keep changes moving from initial concept and market research to QA and commercial production.

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Enjoy Expert Guidance at Every Step

Your team knows your food. Lacerta knows what it takes to package it successfully. With more than 30 years of food packaging experience, our team helps you navigate the decisions that determine how a package looks on shelf, protects the product, performs on your filling line, and holds up through distribution. That expertise helps identify potential issues early before they become costly problems later.

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Research & Problem Solving

Working with our client, we perform market and competitive research on current packaging solutions to identify your problems and needs.

Creative Design

Our packaging experts brainstorm concepts based on client requests or through extensive research to craft an innovative solution.

Concept Visuals

Our in-house design team creates concept drawings to communicate and evaluate your stock or custom packaging solution.

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Renderings

In addition to concept drawings, we provide realistic renderings early in the process to showcase the packaging’s appearance.

Considerations

Our customers choose from a broad lineup of packaging options, including Color, Material, Thickness, Barrier, and Coating choices.

Customer Feedback

We give our clients time to review the design, recommend opportunities to iterate, and reach approval.

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Prototyping

Our prototyping team provides Ren board or aluminum samples in chosen sustainable material options such as PET, PP, or PCR content.

Features

Depending on the design, we evaluate features such as snap, lid integrity, film seal, and tamper resistance.

Evaluation

We test the material stressors and product-package interactions to make changes needed for production approval.

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Tool Design

Our engineering and manufacturing teams collaborate to optimize production efficiency and runtimes. Based on the package, our tools can incorporate robotics and stacking.

Life Cycle Analysis

By creating a Bill of Materials and using the LCA tool, we provide information on the package's sustainability and processes.

Qualification

Then, we evaluate and measure the mold before releasing it for production in one of our cutting-edge thermoforming machines.

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Printing

Our customers can print custom graphics, including colors and patterns, on lidding solutions.

Quality & Inspection

Our quality team tests and qualifies samples during both a trial and production run.

Labeling & Shrink Sleeving

We carefully apply labels and shrink sleeves for a quality graphic that reflects the client's brand.

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Release

Finally, we review the qualified items and deliver them to our customers.

We’re Food-Safe Certified

Lacerta is Safe Quality Food (SQF 8.1 Level II) certified. SQF is recognized by the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) as an approved certification body. Certification means Lacerta has demonstrated a commitment to managing food safety risks and providing safe food products.