October 2024

Welcome back to Corrugated Connections! This month, we’d like to start by posing a question to readers whose companies ship tangible goods—is it time for a packaging evaluation?

Your answer to this question largely depends on what you want your packaging to accomplish. For some, it’s primarily about containing a product while it travels from point A to point B.  For others, it’s a combination of considerations including containment, protection, cost and more.  Regardless of what your packaging goal is there are many details that can make the difference between a merely satisfactory packaging program to one that adds value at every touchpoint in your distribution cycle.

So, what are these details, and how can you leverage them to optimize your packaging program? Our latest article answers this question by highlighting four key areas to evaluate when looking to optimize your packaging program: performance issues, supply chain integration, cost management and sustainability gains. We invite you to see how packaging can help you streamline efficiencies while being customized to your application.

We mentioned earlier how packaging should protect the product it contains, but what if it also needs to protect the end consumer? This is a particularly salient question for food manufacturers. Food safety is a serious matter that demands compliance from manufacturers. For these companies, it’s imperative that the packaging containing their food products complies with industry standards and government regulations. That’s why, for over a decade, we’ve committed to becoming certified to the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)—a third-party audited and universally accepted verification of a company’s systems and standards supporting food safety.

Explore the steps our full-line plants take in their workflows to produce food-safe packaging that brings real benefits to our food-manufacturing customers.

Thank you for joining us today, and we’ll see you in November!