The clear plastic InSight system combines printed plastic sleeves and injection moulded plastic end caps to produce a wide range of distinctive visual packages.
The sleeves are described as: "Essentially tubes with the shape of the end caps determining the cross-sectional profile of the package."
Undercuts are moulded into the end caps to engage die-cut tabs on the sleeves and join the components together securely.
Packages can be designed so that end caps either lock permanently to the sleeve or twist off easily.
"InSight is most suitable for larger volume applications," says HLP Klearfold, part of the Hong Kong-based Hip Lik Group. "Production runs of 250,000 pieces or more are typical."
Users of the InSight packaging system have hitherto included global brand owners such as Procter & Gamble, Kao Brands, and Johnson & Johnson.
HLP Klearfold adds that InSight will complement its existing Klearfold Keeper system, which is better suited to smaller volume applications using printed plastic sleeves that lock to cost-effective, standard or fold-over, vacuum-formed trays, rather than injection moulded components.
"Both packages offer similar unique geometries and a very distinctive shelf presence, but have different production volume sweet spots," says Klearfold president Steve Frazier.
