Copacker

Contract packers are Contractors, pack the goods on behalf of the actual manufacturer or mere commodity importers under their own brand names or trademarks, repackaging, or beipacken to main products. Other designations are Kontraktverpacker, (wage ) - packers, contract packaging, contract packing, contract packers, contract packer; the internationally accepted designations Contract Packer, co-packer, or co-packers are widely used. In the beverage industry is referred to as a contract packer or bottler filler wage or salary ( from ) filler (English: Bottler ).

The Co-Packing is one of the logistics services. External special structures, such as they are hocheffizente packaging lines are then used by manufacturing companies, if the Provision of company-owned structures less efficient and more costly would be ( lean production ). This outsourcing is prevalent in many areas of industry today, very far, for example in food and pharmaceuticals.

There are several variations and hybrid forms:

• Brand manufacturers take over the co-packing for other in order to utilize its own packaging capacities better and get with it.
• Companies that were previously present itself as a brand manufacturer in the market, specializing on economic grounds as a contract packer for others, without themselves being further represented by its own branded products on the market.
• Specialized newly established co-packer specifically build new packaging capabilities that were not previously served for the manufacture of its own products.

The packaging material ( packaging) are partly provided by the client, some material procurement is done by the co-packer. Sometimes the packaging process are also covered with contract packers of upstream and downstream services, for example, collating and picking.

The transition to Lohn-/Auftragsfertigung (for Lohn-/Auftragshersteller ) is continuous (see also extended workbench ). So there are companies that supply all the raw ingredients of their products to their contract packers, which are then bonded together once on the actual packaging process first everything and so only give rise to the actual finished product.

In some areas, contract packers are organized in franchising systems, for example in the beverage bottling of Coca -Cola.