End-to-End Packaging Solutions
PTI is the only plastics packaging partner global brands rely on for fully integrated, lab-to-market services. We’re constantly reimagining smart packaging and waste-reduction strategies, simulating packaging performance and prototyping plastics that elevate consumer experience.
Our multidisciplinary team includes material scientists, engineering experts, sustainability specialists and product support staff. Together, we collaboratively guide plastics projects from conception and testing to design and delivery. And we’re intently focused on reducing cost, squeezing out inefficiencies, reducing waste and accelerating speed to market.
Celebrating 40 Years of Success
PTI, a global leader in packaging innovation and material science, is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year. Founded in 1985 in Toledo, Ohio, PTI has grown from a regional packaging engineering firm into a trusted partner for some of the world’s most recognized brands. Over the past four decades, PTI has helped lead the evolution of packaging with a strong focus on sustainable materials, medical packaging, barrier technologies and functional design.
Find out more about this important milestone by watching the highlight video.
Our Process
Gather Information
Problem Statement
& Design Brief
Visualize
Package Simulation &
Predictive Modeling
Scale Up
Sampling & Activation
Ideate
Explore & Experiment
Evaluation
Consumer Acceptance
& Technical Validation
Production
Guidance & CommercializationPTI Services
We become an extension of your project team, dramatically decreasing iteration processes while reducing costs and accelerating speed to market. PTI services include consumer experience design, sharing knowledge of smart packaging, simulate packaging performances, prototyping packages, and testing.
Setting Industry Standards
At PTI, we establish global plastics packaging industry benchmarks. We operate certified packaging performance testing labs in the United States and Switzerland, and our team is a dedicated research and development partner that informs packaging requirements, along with setting data-driven parameters for packaging failure and success. We ensure your packaging reliably performs and stands up to demands, from production to user experience. We’re the preferred global lab for sustainability-driven lab testing accredited by APR, EPBP and Recyclas.
Case Studies
Resources
Technology and Application of PET Training
Injection Mold Operator Training
Plastic Packaging for Hot-Fill & Aseptic Beverages Training
Blow Mold Operator Training
We’re in the business of sharing knowledge and educating the industry and our client partners. Our resource hub is home to PTI’s technology, application of PET training, mold operator training and other training courses. Our resource hub also includes industry articles, white papers, an IV calculator and more.
Global Brands Trust PTI
We’re the PTI team that brands you know rely on as a plastics innovator with full-scale performance engineering, prototyping and production capabilities. We bring packaging to life for major global household brands and entrepreneurial startups that collaborate with PTI to introduce new products to the market.
