Cheer Pack North America launches innovation center
The cutting-edge facility is designed to accelerate the development of flexible packaging solutions.
Cheer Pack North America (Cheer Pack N.A.), West Bridgewater, Mass., said it launched the Cheer Pack Innovation Center (CPIC), a research and development incubator that enhances the speed-to-market of clients’ flexible packaging innovation ideas. The CPIC also functions as an in-house equipment training support center. It is designed to provide testing of films, resins and additives for designing and manufacturing flexible pouches, fitments and caps for food and nonfood products.
The equipment in the CPIC includes two filling machines, an SLA machine for rapid 3D prototyping, a pouch film sealer and an injection-molding machine, the company said. Researchers also use the facility as a laboratory for new product development, and as a result, Cheer Pack N.A. recently secured a design patent from the U.S. government for a new pouch that was created in the CPIC.