The Flexible Packaging Blog
Reviews, trends, and tips covering all things flexible packaging to protect your products and your bottom line.
Supply Chain Services/ Contract Packaging | Multi-packs | Secondary Packaging | Cost Analysis | Operations
By:
David Roberge
December 2nd, 2025
If you've ever calculated the cost of your in-house multipack assembly, there's a good chance you've underestimated it. Not because your team is bad at math. The issue is that most cost spreadsheets miss the expenses that don't show up on a purchase order. The overtime surge in October. The production line that sat idle in February. The retailer chargeback that took three months to resolve. After working with CPG brands for over seven decades, we've seen this pattern many times with snack food manufacturers, confectionery companies, and other food producers. Companies believe in-house multipack assembly costs them $X per unit, when the real number is often 40% higher. That gap can mean the difference between a profitable product line and one that quietly drains margin quarter after quarter. Here's what most brands miss, and how to know when outsourcing makes more financial sense than keeping secondary packaging in-house.
By:
Nathan Dube
February 21st, 2023
Are you looking for a colored stretch wrap? You can find it in many places. Are you looking for the best colored stretch wrap? If the answer to my second question was "yes," you can only get what you are looking for from a packaging distributor such as Industrial Packaging. Now, you are probably wondering, what makes Spectrum Colored Stretch wrap superior to many of the other wraps on the market? First and foremost, the answer is quality. Of course, you will want to know what applications this wrap is best suited for; luckily for you, that is precisely what this article is about. After reading this article, you will know if steelflex spectrum colored stretch wrap is the suitable flexible packaging wrap for your needs!
By:
Nathan Dube
February 14th, 2023
Are you thinking about buying a stretch wrapper? Before you do, you will want to answer a few questions first. Granted, I know you probably want to get to the fun part, buying your new stretch wrapper. However, there are various items of consideration that you need to think about before pulling the trigger and hitting that buy button. It may seem like a simple decision, but there are vital considerations that you should take some time to meditate upon. For example, do you have enough space for a new stretch wrapper? How can a stretch wrapper improve your warehouse's safety? These are but a few of the inquiries you need to mull over before confirming purchasing a new stretch wrapping machine for your business. This article will answer the top 5 questions about stretch wrappers. Once you have read and answered these questions, you will understand the benefits of using a stretch wrapper to wrap your pallets.
By:
Nathan Dube
February 7th, 2023
So, you've got a business in which you are storing, selling, and shipping palleted products. And pallet wrapping is not something you have done before. You want to ensure that you are wrapping your pallets correctly and, more importantly, safely. But you have never done this before. Or, you have and are looking to ensure that you are doing it right. Well, you have come to the right place. With almost 70 years in the packaging industry, we have wrapped hundreds of thousands of pallets with stretch film. And we wrap our pallets correctly and safely (ask our customers)! Today, we will explain how to properly and safely stretch wrap your palleted products to ensure the proper load containment so that your pallets arrive to your customers well and safely secured. After reading this article, you will know how to stretch wrap a pallet.
Packaging Materials | Packaging Design
By:
Nathan Dube
January 31st, 2023
Are you looking for a way to comingle several different brands and products into one package? Multipacks may be the perfect way for you to achieve this goal. When you are selling multiple products under multiple brands, you will always have some items that sell better than others. This may be because of the location of the products in the stores or other retail environments. Or, it could be because one brand is not associated with another by the consumer. Both of these issues and more can be combated with multipacks. Combining multiple products and brands into one package can help you sell more. And, when you combine several items into one multipack, you can often get eyes on some of your products that were largely unseen by buyers before. But what are the benefits of combining several products and brands into one package? And, how can comingling these items with multipacks benefit your business? After reading this article, you will know how multipacks can benefit your business and help you to sell more products.
By:
Nathan Dube
January 24th, 2023
Are you looking for reasonable pricing on stretch film? Industrial Packaging may be the right packaging company for your business. With that being said, I am confident that you buy at least some of your stretch film from online stores and other packaging vendors. Specifically, there is one store we have in mind regarding many consumers' most common stretch film suppliers. While we cannot mention the name of this business for various reasons, we can say that the company's name rhymes with "U-pine" (You Pine). We would not be surprised if you buy some or all of your stretch film from this business. Many buyers assume that the pricing you get on this company's website is some of the best prices available. We have some good news if you are currently buying from this online store; as we will show today, our prices for stretch film are significantly lower. In this article, we will review the many reasons why you would want to consider switching from (lets call them "That Online Store") to Industrial Packaging for your stretch film purchases.