Bonson Custom
Custom Food Packaging Solutions
Helping you bring food packaging ideas to life
Whatever your food business, big or boutique, Bonson works with you to customise food packaging solutions to your requirements. From large scale leading FMCG manufacturers of ice cream and ready-made meals through to small artisan yoghurt and gelato producers, our high tech capabilities and award-winning design team will ensure your products have maximum functional performance and shelf-appeal.
All custom packaging is manufactured in our state-of-the-art factory in Auckland, New Zealand.
You dream it, we’ll make it, they’ll love it!
Custom made packaging is our speciality. If you don’t see something similar to the food packaging you need on our website, talk to us because we can create it for you.
For over forty years, Bonson has been creating innovative food packaging solutions with a range of features including in-mould-labelling (IML), tamper evident (TE), high oxygen barrier for MAP and shelf-life extension using materials that align with circular economy principles.
With thermoforming technology, there are so many exciting possibilities for packaging design that start with your imagination. We’d love to discuss your ideas.
A diverse portfolio of customised food packaging
Partnering with start-ups through to famous FMCG brands across Australasia, we can tailor food packaging solutions to meet your unique needs.
The food categories we serve range from chilled foods such as yoghurt and desserts, frozen foods including ice cream and gelato through to convenience foods including ready-meals or even foods designed for furry friends like pet food.
Explore what we offer below and if you don’t see what you are looking for, just ask!
Chilled food packaging
Frozen food packaging
Ready meals
Other food packaging
Other packaging
High tech capabilities deliver top quality results
Experts in both injection moulding and thermoforming, we offer in-house packaging solutions that allow you to benefit from the very latest in production technology. Your packaging will be produced to exact specifications that integrate seamlessly with your manufacturing line.
Our capabilities
Polypropylene (PP) solutions
In-mould labelling (IML)
PET & recycled PET (RPET) solutions
Food grade production standards
We are persistent when it comes to quality
Bonson’s products are managed and certified by world-recognised certification systems.
Once prototypes are approved and production tooling is developed, we manage all the related production and supply chain logistics, all the while ensuring our rigorous quality assurance protocols remain uncompromised.
Towards a circular economy
Minimising our packaging's impact on the environment is a key motivator in our decision making.
Packaging success
Case Studies
Some our favourite custom packaging projects
Commonly asked questions
Yes, our custom made food packaging is made with polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) or Recycled PET (RPET) depending on the suitability to the contents and your requirements. All these options are recyclable and you can read more about these materials, including their recyclability codes here. Read about our approach to sustainability.
The applications that customised packaging is suitable for depends on how it has been constructed to your requirements. For example, if your food needs to be stored in the freezer, then the appropriate freezer grade PP packaging would be created for you. Typically Bonson containers are only suitable for use in the microwave, however if you need it to be oven-safe, then we can work with you to ensure the right packaging material is used to make that possible.
Absolutely. Effective labelling on food packaging is one of the best ways to give it shelf appeal and help your customers buy more of your products. In-mould labelling (IML) is a popular process for creating impactful labels that are directly fused into the container and most of our tailor made food packaging customers choose IML.
The important thing to know is we deal with not only large food manufacturers with high volume requirements, but also smaller food businesses who are needing food packaging for their artisan or niche food businesses. We can also cater to
businesses who need non-food packaging. The point at which it is commercially viable for customers to have their packaging customised is considerably varied and there are a lot of factors involved in what the minimum order quantity is (MOQ) is – we would much rather have a conversation with you than have you assume that the volume requirements for your packaging are too small. We are here to help, even if that means exploring if there is an off-the-shelf solution or putting you in touch with another supplier, so please get in touch.
Popular colours include clear/transparent or white packaging with different levels of opaque, however we can also create coloured packaging, with black being one of the most commonly requested coloured food packaging options.
