The Flexible Packaging Blog

Reviews, trends, and tips covering all things flexible packaging to protect your products and your bottom line.

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Equipment | Investment

By: David Roberge
November 5th, 2014

A Different View Of Your Packaging Equipment.. Your packaging machines are simply components of something greater. Although we typically buy them as separate components, they should be purchased as part of a greater plan. Your packaging machines all work together to provide a finished product worthy of shipment or retail display, so why don't we look at the whole line as one moving piece of the packaging puzzle? The following will help you understand how to strategically to impact your packaging speed, labor costs, and ease of doing business.

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The Business of Packaging | Technical Service and Support

By: David Roberge
October 22nd, 2014

In the game of football, a team relies on it's defense. Have you ever thought about the defense on your packaging lines? The prevent defense is a defensive alignment in American football that seeks to prevent the offense from completing a long pass or scoring a touchdown in a single play. How does the idea of a prevent defense relate to your packaging machinery? In the article below, we will team up to help you implement a strong prevent defense for your packaging equipment.

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Equipment | The Business of Packaging

By: David Roberge
October 8th, 2014

Do You Produce Enough to Justify an Automatic Shrink Wrapper? It's all really a function of how many packages per minute (PPM) you need and how much you are spending on labor. Here's what you are looking at with going automatic or staying manual with your packaging machinery:

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By: David Roberge
September 22nd, 2014

Although we want to be your one and only source for anything packaging, we also understand sometimes people just need to spread their wings a little. We also want to give you that outlet to find more information that we don't have up on the site just yet. I scavenged the inter-webs FOR YOU! I searched high and low to find the best blogs out there that will keep you up to date on packaging equipment, packaging design, the latest news, innovations, and tips, and put them all together as a resource for you, right here on our own blog. Check them out and bookmark this page so you can easily get to any of them, anytime!

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The Business of Packaging

By: David Roberge
September 15th, 2014

So, I came across an article a few weeks ago about package-free grocery stores across the pond. I instantly thought of my company and its security in the future. The article was great and detailed the options they have available and how it's the way of the future. But is it?