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Take Box Sealing Tape to Extremes for Sustainable Packaging

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...

Sustainable Packaging Update 2 – Cornerboard

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...

The Sustainable Case for Plastic Box Sealing Tapes

by Dennis Salazar | Jan 22, 2009 | Sustainable Products

Can Plastic Box Sealing Tapes Be Eco-Friendly? From a sustainable packaging perspective, when you manufacture a packaging product made from plastic, you come to market with two – or maybe three – strikes against you. Still, polypropylene box sealing tapes...

Why We’re Not Crazy Telling You Not to Buy the Corrugated Boxes We’re Trying to Sell You

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 18, 2008 | Sustainable Products

As a marketing specialist, I myself find it strange that at the same time we’re promoting Globe Guard 100% PCW content corrugated boxes, we’re writing post upon post telling people how to use less corrugated or no corrugated at all. Well, we definitely...

“Virgin” Corrugated Board and Other Green Myths

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 16, 2008 | Sustainable Products

I recently had another “Madonna Experience”, with a potential customer who hesitated to make what he thought was the quantum leap from his current corrugated boxes, ALL the way to our Globe Guard 100% PCW recycled content corrugated boxes. Those conversations always...
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    • Cost Reduction Consultation
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