What Does Your Shrink Film REALLY Cost You? When it comes to shrink packaging, knowing your price per roll is great, but knowing your price per package is even better. Understanding what each package is really costing, how to calculate it, and how you can save money will put you ahead of the pack (pun intended). Determining your true film cost per package is a two step process:

Ah, the holiday season is upon us, and wow, do we shop! Unfortunately for most consumers, we have but two choices relative to paying for holiday gifts. One is cash, the other is monthly payments on a credit card. Sadly the interest rates on most are extremely high. Fortunately, for packaging equipment buyers there is another choice- LEASE!

Not Be The Turkey.. The Role of People Who Actually Understand Packaging Does your packaging supplier know any more than you can find on your own on the internet?

The Innovations Last week we talked about the positive outlook we left with for the packaging industry in the coming year from Pack Expo 2014. This week we are going to dive into some of the awesome innovations that were showcased by the exhibitors! FIBREFORM

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.

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: