Meat and meat products | eLog, Zagreb (Croatia)

In modern food retail, hygiene, safety, and logistics play a crucial role in ensuring product freshness and quality. In this context, replacing cardboard and traditional plastic packaging (butcher trays) with returnable plastic packaging (RPC) represents an advanced solution that enhances the process of displaying and distributing meat and meat products.

Advantages of RPC packaging in the food industry

RPCs are made of durable polypropylene that is easy to clean and disinfect, ensuring a high level of hygiene and reducing the risk of contamination and loss of product freshness. Unlike single-use packaging, RPCs significantly reduce damage during handling and transport, resulting in less food waste and more high-quality products preserved at the point of sale.

During transport, they move more smoothly along conveyor belts, and their easy handling contributes to simplifying and accelerating production processes.

RPCs are designed with standardized dimensions and shapes that facilitate stacking and storage during transport, which can result in lower transportation costs and reduced greenhouse gas emissions. Since they are fully stackable and collapsible, they enable better utilization of storage and transport space and achieve significant savings in reverse logistics.

In the food industry, where safety and hygiene are key factors, these features enable better quality control, ensuring consumer safety. The grey color of the RPCs additionally enhances visibility of potential contamination.

Thanks to their reusability and durable construction, the need for producing new packaging is reduced, contributing to lower overall energy consumption and conservation of natural resources.