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…

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?

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

Candy wrapper triples productivity for small candy company.

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

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

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As we were reading Green Your Supply Chain: 7 Questions and 7 Tips, we were thinking about how inexpensively one can buy overwrappers these days. The question is what value do you get for your money? One critical point Green Your Supply Chain makes is that more durable and reliable equipment usually costs more.  We do […]

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

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.

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

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

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.

PAckage MAchinery tells its story about reducing customer wrapping costs and improving package looks at Wal-Mart’s Sustainable Packaging conference and expo.

Package Machinery has created an affordable candy wrapping machine, the TTDF, for smaller candy companies. It puts all the tucks and folds on the bottom. This style of wrap is called diefold wrapping.

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

Sustainability means keeping a good packaging machine running indefinitely. Strong service and support are provided by Package Machinery Co Inc.

Sometimes it is important to think about the impact that our customers’ customers have on packaging and therefore on our business. Packaging is a critical part of process of influencing consumers. An article by Kim T. Gordon, Identify New Consumer Norms notes that consumers have changed their behavior.  “Decitica has identified four distinct consumer segments: […]

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 […]