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...
Box or envelope? For the last thirteen years, custom tee shirt shippers have asked us about custom boxes. My response is always the same, if I were in the tee shirt business, I would most definitely use custom branded mailer envelopes rather than custom printed mailer...
Success in any area of packaging can be a bit of a blessing and a curse. We are so well known for the beautiful die cut mailers we make that people forget we also offer mailer envelopes and RSC style boxes. The same holds true...
E-Commerce Packaging FAQs We like to share questions asked of us multiple times by the inquiries we receive. In close to ten years of blogging we have never run out of topics thanks to the people who come to us for answers. We realized when multiple...
The word in the corrugated packaging industry is that die cut mailer boxes are going to get substantially more expensive before the end of the year. Yes, the first increase in over two years is probably going to happen, so the remaining questions are when...
E-Commerce Packaging Timelines The good is that everyone is busy. When the corrugated box industry is thriving that means everyone is selling their products. This indicates the economy is rebounding and that is good for all of us. Unfortunately, that increase in demand also produces some problems...
Most DTC, e-commerce boxes are square or rectangular and that is good. They are nice, simple, and easy for 3PL staff to form and pack. However, the downside is that unless you have an incredibly unique, attractive, exterior graphic design (more on that in my...