Tårtförpackningar

This report presents the combined work from two B.Sc. mechanical engineering students from Halmstad University. The thesis Tårtförpackningar represents 15 ECTS-credits and have been active over a 20-week period during the spring of 2019. The work that has been done with this thesis is an obligatory part of the education on a bachelor’s degree level. The purpose of the thesis is for the students to apply their theoretical knowledge they have gathered during this 3-year period and combine that with the practical collaboration with a company This thesis is a result of the collaboration between two students from Halmstad University and the packaging company INP in Ljungby. The project’s main purpose is to develop more user-friendly cake packaging since the packages today has at least one of following issues: hard to open, difficult to stack on each other, lack of stability on the bottom piece, the cake touches the lid and gets messy. With our packaging, we have succeeded in fulfilling all the above requirements and developed cake packages where it can accommodate a relatively heavy cake that doesn’t make the bottom to sag or touch the side of the lid. The design of the bottom part makes it easy to remove the cake from the package. It’s also easy to open the lid without it touching the cake. The various lids are designed based on our market research where one type of our lids has a simple design to enhance the cake, and the other type is where the packaging itself is emphasized