Packaging assessment
Achieve cost savings, sustainability improvements, and compliant packaging for an entire site with Nefab's packaging assessment.
Cost savings
Save 20% on average* with designs optimized to reduce material, transport, and handling costs while minimizing product damage during shipping.
Sustainability improvements
Reduce waste and CO2 emissions by 30% on average*, supporting sustainability goals and boosting brand reputation.
Compliant packaging
Uncover compliance gaps related to current and emerging regulations. Build a packaging database to ensure all packaging meets legal standards, avoiding penalties and delays.
Nefab's packaging assessment
The packaging assessment scope
Our assessment spans your entire industrial site, covering all outbound flows and, if desired, inbound flows as well.
A holistic, site-wide packaging review and optimization
Nefab's packaging assessment is a three-phase process designed to find cost savings, improve sustainability, and ensure compliance across your entire site. We analyze your packaging flows to identify high-impact opportunities for packaging improvement. The packaging assessment includes the phases of review, improvement, and validation.
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Customizable focus: Aligned with your business goals
If you want to target a particular area for improvement, such as sustainability, we can tailor the scope of the assessment to better meet your objectives, delivering focused results for your business.
Actionable insights and a roadmap for success
You’ll receive a detailed report with quantified savings and sustainability metrics, validated packaging concepts, and a clear implementation roadmap—ensuring site-wide optimization tailored to your specific needs.
Highlights of Nefab's packaging assessment
Quantified sustainability results
GreenCalc LCA provides clear data on CO₂ reduction and material savings, supporting transparent, fact-based decisions.
Expert analysis and redesign
Nefab specialists apply insights from thousands of packaging projects, bringing benchmarking and best practices to find improvements your team may miss.
Comprehensive compliance review
Packaging is systematically checked against both international and local regulations, ensuring smooth, compliant global distribution.
Holistic, site-wide approach
Covers all outbound flows—and inbound if needed—for maximum, interconnected savings and sustainability gains across your entire site.
Digital, standardized process
Secure digital tools enable faster, more accurate data collection and analysis for reliable, evidence-based results.
Prioritized, actionable plan
Actions are ranked by impact. You get detailed reports, 3D concepts, and clear implementation steps for a seamless transition.
Applications of the packaging assessment
Is a packaging assessment right for you?
Do you manage a variety of packaging solutions and encounter rising logistics or packaging costs? Are you expected to meet new sustainability targets or address gaps between current packaging performance and environmental goals? Do regulatory changes create uncertainty about your packaging's compliance with environmental legislation?
A packaging assessment can help you navigate these challenges. This process is particularly effective for companies with long product life cycles, where existing packaging solutions need optimization. If you are ready to share data and collaborate, a packaging assessment can set a clear path for improvement.
Reference case: Packaging assessment saves resources for automotive company
In a recent packaging assessment for an automotive client in Belgium, Nefab identified significant opportunities to reduce costs and CO₂ emissions. The client, managing global transportation with 60 outbound and 50 inbound trucks daily, sought to optimize packaging for 16,000 windscreens shipped annually. By redesigning their packaging with a 100% paper-recyclable mono-material solution, Nefab achieved a 23% reduction in CO₂ emissions (288 metric tons) and annual cost savings of €141,600. The new design improved sustainability, minimized product damage, enhanced handling ergonomics, and simplified operations by reducing packaging variations and administrative complexities.
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Benefits of Nefab’s packaging assessment
Quantified impact: Holistic, data-based approach
Through methodical data collection and analysis, we gain a holistic view of your site's packaging ecosystem. This data-driven approach identifies potential synergies, compliance gaps, and opportunities for cost and sustainability improvements.
By quantifying the potential impact of these changes, we help you make informed, strategic decisions. The result is a clear roadmap that prioritizes the improvements that will have the greatest impact.
Reduce total cost by an average of 20% across transportation, administration, warehousing, packaging, damages, handling, and environment.
Cost savings: Reduce total cost through packaging optimization
Our packaging assessments identify significant opportunities for cost reduction. By optimizing packaging designs, we can lower total costs across transportation, administration, warehousing, packaging, damages, handling, and environment. On average, our redesigns reduce total costs by 20%*, creating more efficient and cost-effective packaging solutions for your business.
*Nefab redesigns reduce total cost by an average of 20%, based on over 3,000 GreenCalc assessments conducted since 2021. Individual results may vary.
Reduce CO2 emissions by an average of 30% across raw materials, production, transport, reuse, and end-of-life.
Sustainability improvements: Reduce environmental impact
A packaging assessment helps you significantly lower waste and carbon emissions, with Nefab redesigns reducing CO2 impact by an average of 30%*. By applying the principles of reduce, reuse, and recycle, our engineers develop optimized solutions tailored to your specific sustainability targets. Using GreenCalc, our specialized Life Cycle Analysis tool, we provide quantified data on CO2 reduction and material optimization, empowering you to make fact-based decisions that support your environmental goals and enhance your brand reputation.
*Nefab redesigns reduce CO2 emissions by an average of 30%, based on over 3,000 GreenCalc assessments conducted since 2021. Individual results may vary.
Compliant packaging: Close compliance & safety gaps
New sustainability regulations, like the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) and global Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) rules, are increasing compliance pressure. We help you stay ahead by helping you build your packaging database and systematically verifying your packaging against current and emerging regulations. Our experts redesign your packaging to ensure it meets all relevant global and local standards, helping you avoid penalties, prevent delays, and improve worker safety.
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How does the assessment work?
Collaboration, data, and engineering
Nefab’s packaging assessment combines collaboration, data analysis, and engineering expertise. We work closely with your team throughout the process, ensuring your insights shape every step. Using our advanced life-cycle software, GreenCalc, we deliver the data needed for informed decision-making. This collaborative, data-driven approach, combined with proven engineering principles, enables our engineers to create efficient, protective, and sustainable packaging solutions tailored to your needs.
The packaging assessment process with three phases: Review, improvement, and validation
1. Preparation; 2. On-site workshop; 3. Packaging redesign & impact analysis; 4. Assessment report; 5. Testing & validation; 6. Implementation agreement
The packaging assessment process: Review, improvement, and validation
Our packaging assessment is a three-phase service consisting of review, improvement, and validation. The review phase focuses on collecting data to understand and identify your current packaging ecosystem. During the improvement phase, we redesign the most promising packaging solutions, conduct an impact analysis, and prepare an assessment report. In the validation phase, we test the new designs, validate assumptions, and prepare for implementation.
Step 1: Preparation
We define key data requirements and identify your stakeholders to set the stage for a focused workshop.
Step 2: On-site workshop
Our team tours your facility, gathers data, and leads a brainstorming session to spot improvement opportunities.
Step 3: Packaging redesign & impact analysis
Engineers develop new solutions and use GreenCalc to show projected savings and sustainability gains, validating results with you.
Step 4: Assessment report
You receive a clear report with savings, CO₂ reductions, compliance updates, new designs, and a prioritized action plan.
Step 5: Testing & validation
We test sample designs to make sure they perform as promised and meet industry standards.
Step 6: Implementation agreement
Together, we finalize the rollout plan and commercial agreement to launch the new packaging solutions.
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Contact your local packaging expert
Are you looking to achieve cost savings, sustainability improvements, and compliant packaging for an entire site? Reach out to us today! Our team of experts in more than 39 countries is ready to collaborate, innovate, and deliver solutions tailored to your unique challenges. Contact your local sales representative for more information.
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FAQ: Common questions about packaging assessments
What is a packaging assessment?
What is a packaging assessment?
A packaging assessment is a site-wide review and optimization process. It analyzes your current packaging solutions and processes to identify opportunities to reduce costs, improve sustainability, and address compliance gaps. A packaging assessment includes data collection, packaging redesign, impact analysis, and testing to develop validated solutions. The result is a detailed report with quantified savings, sustainability metrics, and a clear implementation roadmap tailored to your business.
What is the difference between a packaging assessment, a packaging audit, and a packaging review?
What is the difference between a packaging assessment, a packaging audit, and a packaging review?
A packaging audit or packaging review typically identifies issues and provides recommendations. Nefab’s packaging assessment goes further by including redesign, testing, and implementation support. This ensures actionable results and measurable improvements, making it a more comprehensive and efficient solution for optimizing packaging.
Why should I choose Nefab’s packaging assessment over competitors?
Why should I choose Nefab’s packaging assessment over competitors?
Nefab’s packaging assessment offers a holistic, site-wide approach, covering all packaging flows. It combines expert engineering, benchmarking data, and advanced tools like GreenCalc for quantified savings and sustainability metrics. Unlike competitors, Nefab provides end-to-end support, from analysis to implementation, ensuring seamless execution of improvements.
How does Nefab’s packaging assessment process work?
How does Nefab’s packaging assessment process work?
The packaging assessment process is divided into three phases:
- Review: Data collection, on-site workshop, and analysis to understand your current packaging ecosystem.
- Improvement: Redesign of packaging solutions, impact analysis, and preparation of an assessment report.
- Validation: Testing and validating new designs, followed by an implementation agreement to deploy the solutions.
How long does a packaging assessment take, and what is required from our team?
How long does a packaging assessment take, and what is required from our team?
A typical packaging assessment involves a 1–2 days on-site workshop, followed by a few weeks for redesign, analysis, and reporting, depending on your site's complexity. To maximize results, your team should:
- Provide packaging data (e.g., flow volumes, dimensions, costs)
- Involve key stakeholders (e.g., logistics, operations, sustainability leads)
- Participate in workshops and review redesigns
Nefab manages the process to minimize disruption and deliver faster results.
Is Nefab’s packaging assessment customizable?
Is Nefab’s packaging assessment customizable?
Nefab’s packaging assessment is fully customizable to fit your business needs—whether optimizing your entire site or focusing on select product families, outbound or inbound flows, and specific goals like cost, sustainability, or compliance. This flexibility ensures the assessment aligns precisely with your priorities.
What are the benefits of a packaging assessment?
What are the benefits of a packaging assessment?
A packaging assessment delivers measurable cost savings, sustainability gains, and compliance improvements for your business.
- Cost savings: Save 20% on average* with optimized designs that reduce material, transport, and handling costs, while minimizing product damage.
- Sustainability improvements: Cut waste and CO2 emissions by an average of 30%*, helping you meet sustainability goals and improve your brand's reputation.
- Compliance support: Uncover compliance gaps related to current and emerging regulations. Build a packaging database to ensure all packaging meets legal standards, avoiding penalties and delays.
* Percentages are averages based on over 3,000 life-cycle assessments, and individual results may vary.
What types of companies benefit most from a packaging assessment?
What types of companies benefit most from a packaging assessment?
Industrial manufacturers and distributors managing diverse packaging solutions benefit the most from a packaging assessment. Companies with high logistics costs, sustainability targets, or compliance challenges can achieve significant improvements. It’s particularly effective for businesses with long product life cycles or complex supply chains.
How can a packaging assessment help my business prepare for the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)?
How can a packaging assessment help my business prepare for the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)?
A packaging assessment identifies and addresses regulatory gaps in your packaging to help you proactively prepare for the EU’s PPWR and similar sustainability rules. New regulations, like the EU’s PPWR and global Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations, are increasing compliance pressure. Nefab’s assessment builds your packaging database and systematically verifies your packaging against current and emerging standards. Our experts redesign your packaging to meet all relevant global and local requirements, helping you avoid penalties, prevent delays, and improve worker safety while delivering a clear implementation roadmap aligned with regulatory timelines.
Who should I contact to run a packaging assessment for my company?
Who should I contact to run a packaging assessment for my company?
To start a packaging assessment, reach out directly to your local Nefab sales representative – they're ready to guide you through the process and answer any questions. Alternatively, you can fill out the contact form on this website, and a member of our team will connect with you to discuss your needs and next steps.