Convenient and Quick are keywords for today's lifestyles, cropping up in category after category. The French catering company Saveurs d'événements specialises in meetings, seminars and training days, and when it comes to their lunch, breakfast and cocktail trays, you can add another keyword, too: Elegance.

The company has a distribution network that spans all of France, supplying food from 25 sites throughout the country. Besides smooth management of distribution to customers, Repaburo offers a clever solution once people have finished eating and want to continue working at the table. You simply slide the tray into the cover it came in: no mess, no fuss. Everything is cleaned up in a blink of the eye. Last year, they sold 180,000 trays. When they set a sales goal of more than 200,000 units for this year, they also decided on a packaging upgrade for the premium segment. Previously they employed corrugated board, but now they would be asking more of the printing results, both frontside and back.

Stackability and printing results made the difference

Since the packaging is filled when it is delivered, compression strength is an important consideration. The trays are stacked 25 high and each tray weighs 1.2 kg. "We have many years of experience with Korsnäs materials and their strength properties," says Alain Bounaix, at Gauthier Packaging. "The combination of strength and whiteness that their new material, Frövi White, provided gave us what we needed to produce functional packaging with the right luxurious feel. Korsnäs' Packaging Performance Service helped us develop testable prototypes quickly."