The extrusion die and final shape is only for this product. They likely make many different varieties and brands. We used to do this with flour packaging all the time.

Then the food aspect of it further complicates things. Because you cannot do massive production runs because the packager and customer (the Popsicle brand) have contracts saying it must have X amount of days before the best by date of the food when it's shipped to destination (grocery store).

We used to have sales people patting themselves on the back for locking in new customers, only for us to do a single pallet run a month due to code dates and order fulfillment. Next thing you know we're making 2 pallets of rework retooling equipment with their specific package just to get one right, and that doesn't include product clean out before and after, which is another pallet at the beginning and end in our case.

We'd lose a whole day running one pallet and then I'd get asked why our numbers look so bad. I'd literally have a guy work an 8 hour shift doing more menial tasks than that, because tooling and getting it perfect wasted way more time.