UNI Packaging creates bags for new Barista range

Packaging Solutions

The business to business beverage division of Barry Callebaut has used the expertise of UNI Packaging to launch a range of cocoa and chocolate drink powders.

Hailed as one of the company’s ‘most exciting launches to date’ following a reception at this year’s Caffè Culture show at London’s Olympia, the Barista single origin range from Bensdorp, a Barry Callebaut brand, consists of three variants of drink powders each packaged in a 750 g vertical form filled seal, three-ply laminated stand up bag.

The bags were produced at UNI Packaging’s St Helens site and printed via the group’s award winning digital print offering Digiflex. Given the short run requirement and the ability to print various designs consecutively with no additional set up, digital print was the ideal solution for the launch of the range.

Barry Callebaut Beverages’ head of UK sales Paula Bentley said, ‘As the global leading manufacturer and supplier of quality chocolate, Barry Callebaut has to be diverse to remain relevant – with the three variants in this particular range, the packaging solution provided by UNI Packaging, in particular the effectiveness of their digital print capability, went beyond our expectations.’

UNI Packaging’s UK managing director Rod Entwistle said, ‘The versatility of digital is an attraction for brands. Increased synergies between marketing and packaging departments within businesses is made possible by the capabilities of digital, where the on pack content, however variable, does not require compromise on either side.

‘As with the Bensdorp Barista single origin range, digital can be leveraged to deliver packaging printing requirements in a number of ways, including product launches, emergencies such as delays, or to support a conventional process.’