USADA Certification for use of biobased materials in products and packaging is coming of age.

Creation of custom wrapping machinery has a lot more in common with the creative food process than one would expect.

Calculating total cost of ownership is encouraging manufacturers to bring production back to the US. Higher productivity and increasing costs overseas are only 2 factors at work.

Food and candy entrepreneurs approach us daily to learn more about automating their wrapping process.  In most cases they are either using pre-made packaging that they seal or they are packaging by hand. Sometime the packaging process has a festive atmosphere, as in those who invite friends over for wine and wrapping. At some point […]

When we sell an FA-ST overwrapper to replace a shrink wrapper, we always ask if they are calculating the energy savings. To a person, they never do. They calculate the film savings but never the energy savings. Last year I was touring a production facility with seven shrink wrappers. It was a lovely warm March […]

Starting a food business involves finding production facilities, a business plan and fundamental packaging.

New wrapping projects and new wrapping machines for 2012 at Package Machinery

Package Machinery will be closed December 26 through January 2. If your need is urgent, please leave a message in our general mail box (which will be monitored) and someone will call you back.

many views on packaging need to lead to sustainability and reduction of waste.

This is probably the second question we get asked when someone inquiries about wrappers. It comes right after “How much does a wrapper cost?” It is painful to have to ask that the inquirer back up and tell us a little about their product. What factors go into answering the question of how fast can […]

For a while now, we have been providing a guest post to the Foodpreneur Domenick Celentano. Food & Beverage on About.com focuses on food and beverage trends food entrepreneurs need to know plus tips and techniques for starting a food business or growing a food business. Our role is to provide advice on packaging and […]

It is not too soon to discuss the timing of wrapper installation in 2012. Talk to us soon, so that we can meet your timetable for operations. Email sales@packagemachinery.com for more info.

Thanksgiving is a time for thinking about the things we are grateful for. I am thankful for a great group of people to work with and customers that share our value. After a year that saw record snowfall, a tornado hit our building, flooding in our neighborhoods and power outages for up to a week […]

See our blog post  entitled 5 Tips for Great Food and Beverage Packaging. Please give us feedback.

how to calculate the ROI on overwrappers vs. alternative packaging including shrink wrappers and flow wrappers

What tradeoffs should be made on product waste and packaging? Is there a perfect wrapping material? Progress is being made. See the discussion.

The color pallet for packaging design may be changing. What will be the impact on your or your customers’ products?

What makes Package Machinery’s overwrappers unique?

Used FA-ST overwrapper available for resale to qualified buyer. Machine is in mint condition and can be bought with full warranty. Call 413.732.4000 or email sales@packagemachinery.com quickly.

If consumers are going to be shopping for sustainable products, should your products already be there?

Occasionally my worlds intersect and I find myself applying lessons from my different roles to my other life: from hospital trustee to running a customized overwrapping machinery builder. Today it was about patient satisfaction, in my role as a trustee of a hospital. Satisfaction is about meeting or exceeding expectations. Patients have expectations about what […]

Choice of wrapping materials is not easy when the total cost assessment is considered.

We are grateful to the many visitors we saw last week at our booth at Pack Expo who came to discuss their wrapping projects and problems. We appreciate the many compliments on our machines exhibited there.

Discuss at Pack Expo Las Vegas how Package Machinery can help with simple and complex wrapping and bundling projects.

Please join us at Pack Expo Booth 1308 to talk wrapping, how we can save you money and time and make you more sustainable.

Package Machinery is very pleased to be assisting Domenick Celentano The FoodPreneur and About.com in discussing packaging issues and requirements for budding food entrepreneurs. Mr Celentano’s blog is dedicated to Tips for helping the entrepreneur start a food business.Check out the Foodpreneur and Packaging 101 Food and Beverage Packaging Basics

PacKage Machinery’s competitors are grateful for our efforts to promote sustainability in wrapping

Overwrapping machinery is harder to design than other wrapping machines. Here is why…

The machine is running perfectly after all this time. You guys have a tremendous, bullet proof work horse you have built there. I know where to go for this type of equipment in the future. Steve Casper Engineering Director Pure Source Inc. FA-ST customer in 2006

Consumers consider recycling to be most important of the 3 Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) but green is of growing concern. How will that impact packaging?

Retailers have led the working to reduce waste in the system. Worldwide Wal-Mart has led the way by working with its vendors to find new ways to reduce packaging. For five years Wal-Mart has hosted an annual Packaging Sustainable Vendor Network and conference. This conference is designed to support Wal-Mart vendors in search of ways […]

Please join us next week at Booth 1308 in the Central Hall to discuss what your wrapping issues are and what new machines we may have to help.

Package Machinery is reopened for all business Tuesday June 7. We continue to assess tornado damage and make repairs but we have phone and email service running and will be shipping parts for customers immediately. Thank you for the outpouring of care and concern.

Tornado hits Package Machinery. We expect to resume operations on June 6.

The tornado passed near our facility June 1. We are without power or phone, and State emergency rules apply, so we are closed today June 3. We are happy to report that all Package staff are safe and well. We will reopen as soon as power is restored and we are permitted to do so. […]

Diefold wrap from Package Machinery enables brownie baker to move away from hand wrapping and increase production.

WalMart’s Packaging Sustainable Vendor Network conference is a chance to engage in improving packaging.

Green means more than reducing the carbon impact of product manufacture. Consider energy and water use too.

wrapping sustainably can mean savings

Food is the number one municipal solid waste. Packaging is a distant second. What we should do about it.