Material Guides
How PET, PP, PS, CPET, MFPP and PLA behave in the real world — and which resin actually fits your menu, temperature range and sales channel.
Coming soonThe Packaging Desk
Procurement-Grade Notes on Food Packaging
A working notebook from the factory floor — material guides, sourcing, compliance and sustainability, written for the people who sign the purchase order. Practical, buyer-side, and free of marketing gloss.
Editorial Desks
Six Desks, One Buyer's Lens
Here's what the desk is being built around. Each topic earns a guide as we write it — grouped by the decision you're actually making, not by keyword. Until they're live, the team behind each one is a message away.
Sourcing & Procurement
Writing an RFQ, reading a quote, vetting a factory and understanding MOQ tiers — the groundwork before a first purchase order goes out.
Coming soonCompliance & Food Safety
FDA, LFGB and EU food-contact rules in plain language, mapped to the markets you ship into so one order stays compliant across borders.
Coming soonSustainability
Recycled-content options, compostable PLA, and what an eco claim has to actually prove before it earns a place on the front of pack.
Coming soonIndustry Notes
What take-out, café, supermarket and ready-meal buyers are specifying right now, and the packaging shifts behind those requests.
Coming soonCustom & OEM
How a custom container is actually made — tooling, Pantone matching, tech-packs and lead times, from first sketch to a sample in hand.
Coming soonDon't Wait for the Guide
Ask Fiona the Question the Guide Hasn't Covered Yet
Most guides on this desk start as a real buyer question. Send yours — a material to choose, a spec to sanity-check, a quote to scope — and you'll get a straight answer back during business hours, well before the written version goes live.