Paper, cardboard & corrugated board claim to be the most popular packaging materials suitable for a multiple package in the confectionary industry.

Engineering & manufacture of a package produce a decisive effect on further service life of a package defining the packaged product fate at all stages of the service life cycle.

The stage of a product packaging includes the following operations: preparation of a container for packaging, its positioning in the packaging area, a product dosing, transportation of a product dose into a container, a container sealing. More often the above basic operations & a great number of auxiliary operations are automatically performed using packaging & weighing machines. The working capacity, efficiency of packaging & weighing machines are defined by the quality of the machine manufacture & servicing and depend on the package design, precision of its shapes & geometrical dimensions which are determined depending on the consumer package design & the type of a product being packed.

Transportation of products from a manufacturer to a customer is a proof of all the above work where a significant constituent is presented by the stage of the product packing into a multiple package. This way the packed production goes through the stages of transportation, warehousing, distribution within the sales network, marketing & consumption by a buyer.

Demanding requirements are raised to the marking of a transport package & a freight item. Marking must provide for the automatic identification of a packed product.

The expansion of the amount & dimensions of modern supermarkets has produced an effect on requirements applicable to packaging in a food sector. Bare necessity for the display of a large variety of a commodity bundle in a nicely arranged shopwindows & shelves in order to attract the customer attention significantly enhances the role of a package in marketing of products. At present busy supermarkets require the so called "ready for sale package" which ensures a fast replenishment of goods on shelves due to continuous sales of products & affords complementary opportunities for advertisement. Therefore, in order to eliminate the effect of manual labor and to reduce a package prime cost it is advisable to employ the automated process.

The stage of consumption is a final target for which a packed product is made. This is just the case why satisfaction of the customer demands acquires the paramount importance at the stage of a package designing & a product packing. If a package is not convenient for opening up, if it is difficult to extract product out of it, if measures for a product dosing, if required, are not provided, If a packed product is not convenient for storing as well as in case of many other occasions which caused a customer dissatisfaction with a package - this product will not be purchased again.

Thus, a package assumes the individuality of a product and therefore other requirements inherent to a product & to the process of goods logistics itself are applicable to the package.