• Clamshell packages are the most notoriously difficult-to-open of all pack formats, but by following a few simple tips, the frustration and risks can be reduced.
    Clamshell packages are the most notoriously difficult-to-open of all pack formats, but by following a few simple tips, the frustration and risks can be reduced.
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PKN TV: Coping with clamshell packs

21 October 2013

In numerous international surveys it's clamshell packaging that is nominated time and again as the biggest bugbear of consumers when it comes to hard-to-open packs.

Indeed, Australian consumer group Choice recently pinpointed clamshell packaging as a major culprit in causing injuries to people trying to get to the products inside these packs (packagingnews.com.au, 4 March).

A Choice survey found 64 per cent of respondents in Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia had hurt themselves opening such packs.

The video below may help, with some simple tips on how to minimise the risk of injury when facing the challenge of opening clamshell packaging.

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