In recent years, innovative technologies have emerged to improve the processes used by industries around the world. One of the most important but least talked about is the nearly trillion dollar packaging industry.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, bottlenecks in global supply chains caused widespread disruption to virtually every aspect of e-commerce. For many, this time was their first direct experience of the packaging industry – one of them Philip Weinmanco-founder of pack shapereferred to as “the industry that has forgotten technology”.
Recognized as one of Australia’s most prominent business leaders and entrepreneurs, Weinman is a serial innovator widely recognized for his repeated ability to identify critical gaps in consumer markets and disrupt their respective industries with revolutionary – and often much-needed – changes that improve their existing processes.
“Before Packform, there was no digital platform that helped connect the packaging industry’s customers with their brokers, suppliers or vendors,” said Weinman. “Our platform’s technology is leading the packaging industry into the digital age, bringing new benefits to all stakeholders who need customized or stock packaging options.”
Disrupting the traditional form of the packaging industry
Launched just before the outbreak of the pandemic, Packform is an end-to-end technology platform that has transformed the packaging industry by streamlining the process through which its customers, suppliers and distributors (i.e. independent sellers) buy and sell their products and services to sell . Packform’s digital marketplace offers each of these stakeholders efficient and transparent access to each other in an industry that has historically suffered outdated, fragmented processes and routine supply chain delays.
“There are over 4,000 packaging retailers in the US market,” said Jed Wockenfuss, who used to…
