Study show food taste is influenced by the look of the packaging.

Food waste is something that should be controlled. Sustainable packaging can help.

Sustainable, low-cost hydro electric power and fish are coexisting and the fish multiplying. Learn more.

How Package Machinery works with companies for successful purchase and installation of wrapping machinery

good customer service requires active questioning on wrapping requirements and follow up

We have noticed an increasing trend toward outsourcing manufacturing of consumer products. Major consumer products companies are increasingly viewing themselves as brand managers. They want oversight and quality control on their products but are using private label manufacturers to produce their products. Grocery stores have been stocked for years with private label or house brand […]

In honor of Earth Day, I was reading Anton Steeman’s blog on Earth Day and the Future of Packaging. Steeman thinks (rightly in my opinion) that Extended Producer Responsibility is coming to more countries. (it is in 30 countries now.)  EPR will make the manufacturer responsible for disposing of the leftover product and packaging. Steeman […]

Last week I attended a packaging sustainability conference in Houston. One speaker was from Coca Cola and I finally learned what they mean by the Plant Bottle.  As you probably know, most soda, water and juice bottles are made from PET (Polyethylene terephthalate) – try saying that 3 times fast and you know what it […]

Clear messaging about packaging sustainability will resonate with hurried consumers, if done properly.

A certain percent of consumers prefer to buy their frozen vegetables in boxes rather than bags. The process calls for using waxed paper to wrap the boxes. Today we did a run off for a company looking to do a classic wrap: frozen vegetables in a box wrapped in waxed paper. They plan to run […]

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.

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 […]

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

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?

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.

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…

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.

wrapping sustainably can mean savings

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 […]

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.

Whether it is the customer with fifteen SKUs to overwrap, the one with five wrap sizes or the one that wants to wrap double stacks of some SKUs but not others, changeover on overwrapping equipment can be time consuming. Servo controls shorten the time by allowing for recipe storage and digital setting of parameters.This feature […]

help entrepreneurial companies grow through wrapping wrapping efficiently

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

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 […]

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% […]

There is  a great recent article Maximizing Your Equipment Life by Determining Failure Modes by Terry Harris, in which he discusses how machinery failures can be prevented and preventive care enhanced. He says, “I have been in a few textile and oilseeds plants where the fan guard on the motor is covered with product. This […]

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

What to tell a wrapping machinery maker when thinking about what you want in a new wrapping machine.

We decided 2010 was the year to have resolutions for Package Machinery and its wrapping machines as well as our personal ones. We are resolved to Create new machines. Our first will be a semi-automatic machine for wrapping individual rolls of tape. Yes, we are moving to wrapping round things!! Shorten the lead time for […]

The purchase price to buy a wrapping machine should be weighed against the cost to operate  the wrapper. A cheap old machine that runs fast may not give you the throughput you require because of learning curve, set up time, maintenance expense. Initial purchase price can be misleading in that it does not include start […]

Overwrap offers film savings, lower shipping costs and more structural integrity than flow wrap (finseal wrap).

Over the life of a product, you typically spend much more on the film but agonize over the purchase price of the machine to do the wrap. Lets try to understand how they work together.

To get the best performance from your wrapper, invest time as well as money in it. Here is what to do.