Sambrailo Packaging adds button lock option for its strawberry clamshells
Sambrailo Packaging adds button lock option for its strawberry clamshells
Newly introduced by Sambrailo Packaging in Watsonville, CA, for its line of Mixim System clamshells, according to Jim Scattini, vice president of sales and marketing, is a button lock option for the one-pound strawberry clamshell.
“It is still the Mixim design,” he said, “but it has a button lock versus the friction lock.” The company now offers both options, depending on customer preference.
Some people feel that the button lock is more secure, that “once you snap it, it is less likely that it would pop open,” he said. “We feel very strongly” that the friction lock design that has Sambrailao has traditionally used in its Mixim clamshells is also very strong and secure, he said. “But for the customer who prefers — and some have even mandated — the button lock is another option.”
At Sambrailo, “we continue to do what we have done for 91 years now, and that is service the [berry and fresh vegetable] industry by putting together the full package” for produce packaging, Scattini said in a March 6 interview with The Produce News.
That package includes not only the clamshells and trays but the labeling of the clamshells, the pre-folding of the trays, “the inventory, the warehousing, the handout and, if needed, even the traceability. So it is a full service package in addition to … the clamshell and the corrugated tray.”
For the strawberry industry in California, Sambrailo offers that package of products and services throughout the growing districts “from Oxnard to Santa Maria to Salinas and Watsonville,” he said. “We continue to grow along with the industry.”
Inventory management is “always an issue with highly perishable items,” especially when weather factors cause fluctuations in production, as occurred with the rainfall in California strawberry growing areas late February, Scattini said. Whatever the fluctuations in supply, “we always want to be there for the customer — in our case, the grower-shipper.”
As Scattini said in an earlier interview, whatever the season brings in terms of the timing and flow of the harvest and the ups and downs of volume, “we’ve got to be ready to go” when the berries are.
