Core Competencies

Scholle Packaging’s history is one of breakthrough packaging successes that have helped brands add consumer convenience, new methods of serving and dispensing products, product safety enhancements and time and money savings. Throughout the years, we have built a reputation of quality, value and packaging pioneering by providing the right products at the right place and right time. We have sustained our reputation by honing in on–and developing–critical core competencies that keep us strong and focused as individuals and unified and directed as a company.

Manufacturing and Operations as Core Competencies

We have been designing and manufacturing bag-in-box and the equipment needed to produce bag-in-box since our inception in 1947. To this day, every aspect of our manufacturing process is done within the Scholle organization. From components to end-products, we design and manufacture packaging.

Our vertically-integrated manufacturing process gives us the unique ability to control the quality and supply of our technologies, and our material usage and waste. Scholle’s manufacturing and operations can be divided into four critical components:

In-house extrusion and lamination of films

• Scholle extrudes film in three locations worldwide. We produce a unique range of films that are designed specifically for bag making operations. Separate layers of high-performance films are laminated together in various combinations to create unique performance properties for applications where extreme performance is required. Our metallizing operation, Vacumet, vacuum metallizes films used for applications that require gas and moisture barrier properties.

Custom-designed injection-molded spouts and taps

• We produce over 5 million caps and spouts daily at 4 injection molding facilities worldwide. Molding our own parts enables us to maintain strict dimensional specifications required by our customers’ applications and quality standards.

Bag-in-box produced with Scholle-patented bag-making processes

• Our patented bag making processes assure the high level of quality and performance customers around the world expect from Scholle.

Continuous improvement of our operations processes

• Our dedicated operations experts achieve superior ratings in manufacturing excellence and safety by constantly monitoring, measuring and adjusting our performance. We are proud of the list of manufacturing certifications we maintain world-wide:
  • In North America we have a superior rating in AIB and are FDA, Kosher and IMS certified.
  • In Latin America we are GMP, HACCP certified and strictly follow Chemical Products Control and Risk Area & Edification guidelines.
  • In Europe we are Quality Management System – ISO 9001-2000 and BRC/IoP Global Standard for Packaging certified.
  • In Asia Pacific we are ISO 22000 Food Safety Management Systems and AMS Food Safety Assured certified.
  • For a more in-depth look at Scholle’s certifications and their meaning, click here.
• Lean/Six Sigma practitioners facilitate the development of enhanced processes from product design that centers on the voice of the customer, to transformed business methods that offer a better customer experience, to nimble manufacturing processes that safely deliver the perfect order at the lowest total cost.
• Our strategic sourcing managers utilize top local suppliers that meet our global supplier performance model. The Scholle Supplier Qualification Standard is a comprehensive source designed to provide the means to establish quantitative analysis and benchmarking capabilities. Suppliers using these standards will be able to implement a step-by-step approach to setting up a supply chain improvement initiative. This information is also used for us to perform regular self-assessments of our own facilities.

Package and Technology Development as a Core Competency

Our success depends on understanding our customers’ products and market challenges and overcoming them with packaging technology. A team of experts from diverse scientific disciplines enable Scholle to identify and create the optimal packaging solution.

• Polymer scientists focus on continuous improvement and packaging advancement.
• Product development teams turn out winning market solutions that guarantee our commitment to customer success and support.
• On-site materials scientists and labs perform industry-specific tests that ensure the right package is developed to safely deliver products.
• Packaging engineers create specifications tailored to market and product needs.
• Equipment engineers design and build filling equipment specific to application and volume requirements.

Bag-in-Box Commercialization Process as a Core Competency

Scholle partners with customers from ideation to commercialization to ease their transition into bag-in-box. Our packaging expertise ranges from technical packaging guidance and market requirements to equipment installation and maintenance.

Our commercialization process is enhanced by a team of industry specialists who know the markets, the products and the applications of each of our customers and how bag-in-box technology applies. Their ability to advise and guide our customers enables us to ensure commercialization success.