Food Entrepreneurs and Packaging

December 6th, 2011

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 […]


ROI on Overwrapper

November 16th, 2011

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


Resource Efficient Packaging

November 9th, 2011

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




What healthcare delivery and customized wrappers have in common?

October 18th, 2011

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 […]





Partnering for Packaging Waste Reduction

June 21st, 2011

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 […]




Food and Packaging as trash

March 7th, 2011

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


Brownie Wrapping

February 16th, 2011

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 […]



Product Impact on Packaging Choices

January 26th, 2011

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.


2011 trends in packaging

January 4th, 2011

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


What is excessive packaging?

December 28th, 2010

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 […]


Looking to Wrap in 2011

December 20th, 2010

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




Package Machinery presents at PAC Green Den

October 25th, 2010

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 […]




Balanced View on Wrapping Materials

September 17th, 2010

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 […]


Changing Wrapping Materials: 3 Problems Solved

August 31st, 2010

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 […]


Wrapping projects find Package Machinery

August 9th, 2010

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 […]


Candy box wrap – material savings with prettier wrap

August 3rd, 2010

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 […]


Package Machinery's new machines to be at Pack Expo

July 26th, 2010

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% […]




Meeting Expectations for Wrapping Machinery

June 3rd, 2010

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.


Packaging People to Follow

May 26th, 2010

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


Affordable Candy Wrap Machine

May 12th, 2010

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


Keep on wrapping – Overwrapping, that is

April 28th, 2010

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.


Sustainable Packaging Coalition spring meeting

April 22nd, 2010

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.


Reduce packaging by not flow wrapping

April 12th, 2010

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


Sustainable Packaging Exposition

April 7th, 2010

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




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