Industrial Packaging

What are the three types of Industrial Packaging?

There are 3 levels of packaging: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary.

Primary Packaging

• The packaging that most closely touches a product, often referred to as “retail packaging.”
• Its main goals are to protect the product and inform or attract a customer.
• What's considered to be primary packaging depends on the product.

Secondary Packing

• The packaging used to ship products already in primary packaging.
• Its main goals are to protect products and provide branding during shipping.
• It's also used as display packaging in retail locations such as grocery stores.
• As you can see, primary and secondary packaging sometimes overlap.
• Secondary packaging can overlap with tertiary packaging as well.

Tertiary Packaging

• The packaging used most often by warehouses to ship secondary packaging.
• Its mail goal is to properly protect shipments during their time in transit.
• Tertiary packaging is typically not seen by consumers.