by Dennis Salazar | Feb 12, 2009 | Sustainable Products
The standard width of pressure sensitive box sealing tape is 48 mm (2″). The standard width of paper box sealing tape is 72 mm (3″). These standards are both compromises, and as a result, they lead to an unnecessarily high amount of packaging material...
by Dennis Salazar | Feb 10, 2009 | Sustainable Perspective
Some of our readers may be too young to remember but seeing the Tylenol poisonings back in the news has brought back some very profound, mixed feelings. The Tragedy For those who may not be aware, in September of 1982, seven people in the Chicago area were poisoned...
by Dennis Salazar | Feb 5, 2009 | Sustainable Products
Cornerboard is that L shaped laminated paper board product usually placed on the vertical corners and or possibly on the horizontal top corners of a strapped or stretch wrapped pallet. Some may wonder why we chose that particular “ancillary packaging” product to...
by Dennis Salazar | Feb 3, 2009 | Sustainable Products
If you are shipping any quantity of merchandise it all, packaging automation is worth taking a look at. Automatic corrugated case sealers, shrink wrappers, and stretch wrappers are excellent places to start. Besides the many sustainable packaging benefits of...
by Dennis Salazar | Jan 29, 2009 | Sustainable Perspective
Image via Wikipedia These days, it is increasingly difficult to sell products solely on the basis of their “greenness”, particularly if the green product in question is more expensive than the non-green alternative. And even when your green product is less...
