Retail packaging is a delicate balance of designing in sustainability without diminishing shelf appeal, of protecting product while reducing unnecessary material, of being easy to open yet not welcome pilferage. Placon’s vast and rich thermoform packaging design and manufacturing experience ensures that your customer’s first response to your product’s packaging is a positive one.

Packaging: concept to launch

Vertically integrated, Placon offers creative design services, rapid prototyping, in-house tool design and build, extrusion, advanced thermoforming solutions and the hardest working customer support team in the industry for brand owners in the health and beauty, household, consumer electronics, hardware and sporting goods categories. 

At Placon, we are committed to continuously understanding the impact our products and business operations have on the environment which is why we opened the doors to our own, state-of-the-art PET water, soda bottle and thermoform recycling facility in 2011. Dedicated to the recycling and reuse of PET, Placon’s EcoStar® line of extruded post-consumer recycled rollstock is currently found in some of the world’s top brand owners’ packaging.

Headquartered out of Elkhart, IN, strategically located near Warsaw, Barger, Placon’s medical division, is known as a highly responsive, experienced partner offering turnkey solutions that meet ISO 9001 and 13485 standards in the design, production and distribution of a wide range of custom sterile and non-sterile, single and double barrier medical device packaging systems. Working closely with start-ups to leading med device manufacturers, our experienced packaging team helps increase your products’ speed to market while designing medical packaging that reduces unit costs, and ensures total product protection and integrity.

Quality designs, secure seals and exceptional clarity all play a role in our industry-leading disposable plastic food packaging containers designed to make food look its best. Polypropylene, PET and HDPE thermoformed or injection molded packaging options mean our containers can accommodate virtually any food product, use and environment. And our EcoStar® food-grade recycled PET containers made with up to 100% post-consumer recycled content allows you to market your commitment to a sustainable future.

The originator of the BlisterBox® line of re-closable hinged clamshell containers, Placon, a family-owned, US-based company has been leading the stock plastic clamshell packaging industry since 1966.

With a large number of shapes and sizes to accommodate virtually any product type from fishing lures to craft beads, fasteners to cell phone accessories, our stock plastic clamshells offer a custom packaging look and feel with short lead times and no tooling costs. Whether hanging on a peg or standing on a shelf, our clamshell packaging merchandises your product in the best possible light with superior hinge strength, tight seals, high clarity and eco-friendly options.

Before post-consumer recycled PET (rPET) packaging became popular, Placon was extruding and thermoforming the material into our popular stock lines of retail plastic clamshells to help mitigate our dependence on virgin, petroleum-based materials. To continue pushing advancements in recycling plastic bottles and thermoforms with the #1 resin identification symbol, we opened our own state-of-the-art PET recycling facility next to our Madison headquarters in 2011.