by Dennis Salazar | Jul 9, 2026 | Packaging Solutions, Packaging Design
One of my favorite movies is the original Pirates of the Caribbean. Even if you’ve watched it multiple times, as I have, you may have missed some very funny lines. For example, after flouting the importance of the “Pirate’s Code”, Captain Barbossa sheepishly admits...
by Dennis Salazar | Jun 19, 2026 | Packaging Design, Ecommerce Packaging, DTC Boxes
A recent story that has been shown all over the internet and social media is about a Walmart customer who ordered 165 noodles, the swimming pool variety. He uses them as a protective packaging component for the product he manufactures and sells on line. The story...
by Dennis Salazar | Jun 16, 2026 | About This Blog, Inside Sustainable Packaging, Information Center, Salazar News
Today, June 16th, we’re celebrating a milestone that means so much to us: 18 years of sharing information, educating, and bringing clarity to a confusing industry that is in a constant state of change. Initially, our industry leading blog, Inside Sustainable Packaging...
by Dennis Salazar | Jun 11, 2026 | Packaging Solutions
Chances are the great majority of the corrugated board you have used or seen is standard, double face board. It consists of a middle section of fluted paper creating that zig zag, “rippled” layer, and that is sandwiched between two flat layers of liner board paper....
by Dennis Salazar | Jun 4, 2026 | Sustainable Perspective, Inside Sustainable Packaging
Early in my packaging career I made a very good living selling plastic films. I sold just about every type of plastic packaging film including shrink, stretch, bagging and bundling films. Then around year 2000 there was a new focus on environmental sustainability, and...
