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Contract Packaging | Kitting & Assembly
By:
David Roberge
August 25th, 2026
Kitting is no longer a niche add-on service buried in a copacker's capabilities deck. As Packaging World noted in "Kitting Moves Beyond Hidden-Market Status," kit packaging is becoming an essential service of contract packagers in meeting CPG companies' need to push time-sensitive products to market. Variety packs, promotional bundles, club-store configurations, and seasonal programs are driving a volume of assembly work that most primary production lines cannot absorb without compromising throughput on core SKUs.