Produce Packaging history

A year later (1810), Peter Durand of Britain received a patent for tinplate after devising the sealed cylindrical can.

The world’s first commercial canning factory was on Southwark Park Road, London, and they produced the first canned goods for the royal navy in 1813.

The first commercial cardboard box was produced in England in 1817, more than 200 years after the Chinese invented cardboard.

Aluminum particles were first extracted from bauxite ore in 1825 at the high price of $545 per pound.

Styrene was first distilled from a balsam tree in 1831.

Vinyl chloride, discovered in 1835, provided for the further development of rubber chemistry.

Collapsible, soft metal tubes, today known as “flexible packaging,” were first used for artist’s paints in 1841.

In 1856, the corrugated paper was patented in England and used as a liner for tall hats.

Plastic was first revealed to the world in 1862 at the Great International Exhibition in London by Alexander Parks.

Screws and hammers were being used to open metal packaging until 1866.

Clear glass bottles Henry Heinz started out selling freshly grated horseradish in 1869.

In 1870 New Yorker John Wesley Hyatt was given a patent for "celluloid” produced in high temperatures and pressure and has low nitrate content.

In 1875 can opener was invented.

The development that affected glass packaging the most was the patenting of the "automated rotary glass manufacture machine” in 1889.

In 1890, biscuits were the first products to be individually packaged and sold by National Biscuit Co., now known as Nabisco.

In 1903, an American inventor named Michael Owens invented an automatic glass-forming machine, which could produce more glass bottles in a single hour than a team of glass blowers could in an entire day.

The first cereal box for corn flakes was introduced by Kellogg's in 1906.

In New York in 1907, Belgian-American chemist Leo Baekeland developed Bakelite, an early plastic.

But a sturdier multi-walled paper sack for larger quantities could not replace cloth until 1925 when a means of sewing the ends was finally invented.

More than seventy years later, in 1933, Ralph Wiley paved the way for a huge leap forward in plastic technologies when he accidentally discovered a new form of plastic: polyvinylidene chloride.

The first aluminum canned food came out in 1959.

In 1963, the first ring pull for cans was introduced.

In 1973, the first plastic bottles that can contain carbonated drinks were invented by chemist Nathaniel Wyeth.

Its plastic counterpart, introduced in 1983, is not only cheaper but it’s much easier to use.

In 2008 labels and packaging began providing shoppers with even more information and resources by placing quick response (QR) codes on products.

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