One of the most popular new products for e-commerce is paper padded mailer envelopes. Not the old-style paper envelopes filled with shredded paper that are heavy (mail cost) and messy when ripped. We are talking about the new style that is clean, light, and already...
How to Reduce the Impact of Corrugated Price Increases In my mind there is no way to justify substantial back-to-back industry price increases. One in December 2020 and now another that is sure to happen within the next 30 to 60 days. We cannot explain it...
Presentation and Protection for Glass Product Packaging If you are a Carly Simon fan, you may recall her Grammy award winning 1977 song titled, “Nobody Does it Better”. Most Boomers like me also remember it is the theme song for the classic James Bond movie, “The...
Design Trend Forecast One of the pleasures of being a leading producer of DTC branded packaging boxes is seeing what is hot and what is not in graphic designs. For example, for a while everyone was using Chevron designs. Later, pastel colors were in demand, so...
Would You Use Wooden Packaging? Occasionally, we receive an inquiry for wooden boxes. Usually it is for primary display packaging, rather than secondary shipping packaging. In other words, the “inner” box that is designed to be kept by the consumer, rather than the corrugated shipping box...
Padded Paper Mailers Available Now If you have recently received a package from mega e-commerce shippers like Amazon and Target, you may have already seen this terrific, new, green product, the padded paper mailer. It is padded without the use of plastic bubble, foam, or messy...
Our green packaging store, www.GlobeGuardProducts.com was one of the very first sites on the web that focused on green, eco-friendly packaging products. In 2007 people were talking about two things: the economy crashing and sustainability. So, from the beginning, our goal was to make sustainable...
Packaging Trends for 2021 One year ago, no one could have envisioned how painful 2020 was going to be for many people and businesses. At the same time, no one could have guessed the explosive growth we all witnessed in e-commerce. The year-end numbers are not...
We were involved in eco-friendly DTC packaging from the very beginning in 2007. Since then we have introduced many innovative designs and techniques. They include being one of the first companies to market and promote inside printing on die cut mailer boxes, printing white ink...
Attention DTC Box Customers; Price Increase is Here We have been warning friends and customers for several months that a substantial price increase was on the way. It has arrived and box manufacturers are raising prices anywhere from 7% to as much as 10%. The industry...