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 […]

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.

What makes Package Machinery’s overwrappers unique?

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 […]

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

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…

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 […]

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.

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

Here is a sample of a brownie wrapped on our TTDF wrapper. It saves our customers from sore fingers. We have been hearing lots of complaints from artisanal food and candy makers about sore fingers. The more successful they are at selling their brownies, cookies or candies, the more wrapping they have to do by hand […]

Candy wrapper triples productivity for small candy company.

The product has an impact on packaging options. Keeping the needs of the product and its consumer in mind may alter the selection of packaging.

packaging trends and thoughts for 2011 – What to expect and how to think about the issues.

A recent suit in England over excess packaging leads me to wonder what constitutes excess. The article illustrates the continuing concern of consumers for reduction in packaging due to shortages of landfill space and the methane gas creation by landfills. In the December 25, 2010  New York Times, Elizabeth Rosenthal writes, “British regulations on excess packaging […]

Demand for wrapping machinery will pick up in 2011 and affect sustainable operations.

help entrepreneurial companies grow through wrapping wrapping efficiently

Halloween at Pack Expo can be fun. Join us at booth S-1251.

Package Machinery will be presenting at PAC Green Den at PACK EXPO. The inventive program, “Fast Tracking Sustainable Innovation,” takes place Tuesday, Nov. 2, 1:00–4:30 pm; at McCormick Place. Lakeshore building Level 3 Room 350. PAC Green Den brings together the ingredients of successful reality television and business matchmaking: “Innovators” will present their solutions to […]

simple, easy wrapping machinery at Pack Expo

Treats being offered at our booth S 1251.

Recently we listened to  a consumer products company’s director of manufacturing talking about how the packaging machinery people cannot speak about the consumables, but the consumables people do understand the machinery. This triggered a wrapping issue story in our brain. The first is about the customer who called last week because their wraps had become […]

There are lots of new wrapping materials out there today.  Between normal new product introductions and deletions, we are also seeing films from new sources, such as cellulose, and corn. Reductions in gauge as a way of reducing both weight and cost is also a factor in changing wrapping materials. We see many customers switching […]

One of the fun parts of our job is trying to figure out how to wrap or package different things. Here are some of the things we have been asked to package. hot dog bundles powdered metal tissues asparagus stacks of hexagonal waxed paper telephone cards scotch tape bundles fruit cake brownies frozen pies stamps […]

What our customer taught us and you can benefit from. Our customer bought a new FA-ST overwrapper to replace his 1940’s vintage FA overwrapper last year. They bought with the initial intent of using it only to wrap their shrink-wrapped, two-piece  boxes of candy in seasonal gift paper. After some issues around programming the glue […]

It is not too soon for us to be thinking about what wrapping machinery we will take to Pack Expo 2010 at the end of October in Chicago….. We will be showcasing how you can save film and energy by using overwrap rather than shrink wrap or flow wrap. We have demonstrated up to 50% […]

Why the FA-ST is the best overwrapper on the market – technology, flexibility, customization, training and experienced support.

Productivity of candy company is enhanced by new TTDF diefold machine from Package Machinery.

Collaboration and sharing knowledge and expertise of product and wrapping machine is key to successful implementation and start up. Nothing substitutes for knowledgeable people working together.

The packaging people that Package Machinery follows to learn and think about state of the art packaging and package design are reviewed here.

New inexpensive semi-automatic machine for individual candies and small items wrap that provides quality wrap with all folds on bottom.

Overwrapped bundles (vs. shrink and flow wrap) look better and use less film and usually less energy. This makes for tremendous material savings over the life of a machine.

Lots to learn from Sustainable Packaging Coalition spring meeting. Most interesting items were WRAP, Global Packaging Partnership, World Wildlife Fund partnerships and debates over oxy-degradables.

Products from Wal-Mart were unwrapped and re-wrapped using overwrap to demonstrate reduction in film consumption and more attractive packaging.

Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging Exposition is an opportunity to discuss making more attractive and sustainable wraps on products and bundles.

Visually and graphically Package Machinery demonstrates reduced film use through overwrap rather than shrink or flow wrap.

Not all products can be overwrapped. Package Machinery knows its wrapping limits and gives honest answers.